dehisce

The stamens are very numerous, and are spirally arranged; and the carpels are variable in number, sessile or stipitate and slightly united at the base and dehisce by ventral suture.

Fruit dehiscing irregularly, the pericarp thin, loose and usually roughened; not salt-marsh plants.

It has been noted with respect to the nectar of the fuchsia that it is most abundant when the anthers are about to dehisce, and absent in the unexpanded flower.

Follicle, a pod formed from a single pistil, dehiscing along the ventral suture only.

Occasionally, follicles dehisce by the dorsal suture, as in Magnolia grandiflora and Banksia.