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Fruit oval, flat, with the outer face rather convex and the inner concave, sharp-margined, a caryopsis, i.e. the thin pericarp adherent to the vertical seed.

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Such a fruit is termed a caryopsis or grain.

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The caryopsis consists of an embryo on one side at the base and the endosperm occupies the remaining portion.

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As an illustration of the caryopsis, the grain of Andropogon Sorghum may be studied.

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