Description

Description FRUIT. Black when dry, globose. Epicarp glabrous. Calyx persistent. Length 10 – 15 mm, width 10 – 15 mm, thickness 15 – 18 mm. ENDOCARP. Cream, bilaterally symmetrical, trilocular, three-seeded, globose in lateral view and transverse section, flattened in the apex-base axis, length ca 10.4 mm, width ca 14.9 mm, thickness ca 15 mm. Keel surrounding the endocarp on dorsal side only. Apex and base flattened in lateral view. Outer surface of the endocarp rugose with long and brittle rugosities. Endocarp wall of two parts: the outer part, ca 400 µm thick (930 – 1230 µm with rugosities), surrounds the three inner locule walls (350 – 390 µm thick), which surround the seeds. The outer surface of the endocarp with circular pores piercing the wall, ca 110 µm in diameter. Endocarp wall with sclerotic, isodiametric and homogeneous cells (inner and outer walls), 59.4 – 111.9 µm in diameter. Cells pitted and with spikes inside.

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Tracheophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Metteniusales

Family: Metteniusaceae

Genus: Emmotum

Species: Emmotum nitens (Benth.) Miers