MORPHOLOGY OF FRUITS AND SEEDS OF Cryptocaria moschata Nees & Martius ex Nees, Endlicheria paniculata (Sprengel) MacBride AND Ocotea calharinensis Mez (LAURACEAE)
PEDRO LUIS RODRIGUES DE MORAES E ADELITA APARECIDA SARTORI PAOLI
Morfological features of fruits and seeds of Cryptocarya moschata Nees & Martius ex Nees, Endlicheria paniculata (Sprengel) MacBride and Ocotea catharinensis Mez were described. Samples were collected from Carlos Botelho State Park (24°44 a 24°03S, 47°46 a 48°10?W), south of São Paulo State, Brazil. In C. moschata the fruit is a ?nucóide?, nucule type. The pericarp costulation varies from absent to present, as well as the size, shape and color of the fruit. The diaspore is constituted by pericarp plus seed. In both E. paniculata and O. catharinensis the fruit is a unilocular drupe, prolate in shape. The former is purple black, constrasting the red cupule, while the latter is light brownish in color, with dark brownish cupule. The diaspore is constituted by endocarp plus seed. The seed of the 3 species is endotestal and exalbuminous. The embryo is composed of large, fleshy, flat-convex cotyledons that encase the minute, flattened radiclehypocotyl axis, placed near the micropile, in which the bilobed plumule is turned to the center of the cotyledons.
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