subapocarpous

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ apocarpous

Adjective

subapocarpous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Having the carpels partially joined.
   • 1879, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, Celastrales, page 407:

     Flowers often irregular; disc usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced to glands, rarely absent; ovary multicarpellary, syncarpous or subapocarpous; ovules one to two, rarely numerous in each carpel, ascending or pendulous; raphe usually ventral.

   • 2015 August 25, “Phylogeny of Acronychia (Rutaceae) and First Insights into Its Historical Biogeography and the Evolution of Fruit Characters”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived.