carpel

A pod-like fruit composed of a solitary carpel and usually splitting open by both sutures (Leguminosae).

The follicle is a dry unilocular many-seeded fruit, formed from one carpel and dehiscing by the ventral suture.

From the back of each carpel grows a wing, converting the fruit into two 1-seeded, at length separable samaras or keys.

Also, instead of a perigynous disk, there are usually little scales on the receptacle, one behind each carpel.

A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepatic, etc.