dehisce

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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