fruit_type

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• Label: Fruit type
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012516
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A fruit morphology trait [TO:0002629] which is the botanical classification [NCIT:C25161] or type [NCIT:C25284] of a fruit [PO:0009001].;Botanical fruit type classification.
• Additional comments: Although this trait is explicitly for fruit types, it includes a single term `strobilus` to describe the "fruiting body" of non-flowering plants.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  achene	A simple, dry, indehiscent fruit with a single seed that is attached to the pericarp at one point only. (Synonyms, cypsela)
  anthocarp	A ripened ovary surrounded by attached accessory floral tissues; the floral tissues may be fleshy or dry. (Synonyms, accessory_fruit, pseudocarp, diclesium)
  berry	A simple, indehiscent fruit with one to many seeds embedded in a fleshy pericarp.
  capsule	A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of two or more united carpels; different types of capsules distinguished by type of dehiscence (e.g. valves, slits, pores).
  caryopsis	A simple, dry, indehiscent fruit with a single seed which is fused to the pericarp at one point only; the fruit type of all Poaceae (Synonyms, grain)
  compound_fruit_other	A fruit derived from more than one flower. (Synonyms, aggregate_fruit)
  drupe	A simple indehiscent fruit with a hard, stony endocarp and a fleshy mesocarp.
  follicle	A dry, dehiscent fruit derived from a single carpel that splits along one suture.
  legume	A dry, dehiscent fruit derived from a single carpel that splits along two sutures; applies to Fabaceae. (Synonyms, pod)
  legume_indehiscent	A dry, indehiscent fruit derived from a single carpel; applies to Fabaceae.
  mericarp	A fruitlet (seed-containing portion of a fruit) that is a half-carpel; the individual fruitlets separate from one another at maturity; a specific type of schizocarp. (In some datasets, term likely refers to any fruitlet derived from a portion of a schizocarp that separates at maturity, not explicitly just a half-carpel.)
  multiple_fruit	A fruit composed of several fruitlets developing from a single flower (e.g. raspberries, magnolias); fruits developing from more than one flower are included under compound (aggregate) fruits. (Synonyms, apocarp)
  nut	A simple, dry, indehiscent fruit with a single seed and a hard pericarp.
  nutlet	A diminutive of nut, referring to a simple, dry, indehiscent structure with a single seed that might be an entire fruit (nut; monocarp) or a portion of a fruit, such as the individual components derived from an apocarp (fruit with multiple unfused ovaries) or schizocarp (fruit with multiple ovaries that separate at maturity).
  pepo	A fleshy fruit derived from a single ovary that is divided into several carpels, has multiple seeds, and has a tough rind when mature.
  pome	A fleshy fruit with the bulk of the fleshy tissue derived from flora tissue that surrounds the inferior ovary.
  pyrene	A fleshy fruit in which the seed(s) are covered by a hard layer of endocarp.
  samara	A winged, dry fruit.
  schizocarp	Category that includes all fruits derived from a compound pistil that separate into individual carpellary constituents at maturity; broad terms that includes dry and fleshy fruits, some with accessory tissues, others without. The individual seed-containing units that a schizocarp breaks apart into include mericarps, nutlets, and fruitlets.
  silique	A type of capsule (dry, dehiscent fruit) where the fruit is divided into two parts by a thin partition; more than three times as long as wide; applies to Brassicaceae (Synonyms, silicle, siliqua)
  strobilus	A modified reproductive shoot system found in many nonflowering plants, especially gymnosperms, comprised of overlapping bracts (scales). (Synonyms, cone)
  syconium	A fleshy compound fruit, in which the fruitlets are enclosed in accessory material, such as the hollow-centered fruits of Moraceae. (Synonyms, synconium, fig)
  syncarp	A compound fruit produced by the adhesion of the fruits from several flowers.
  utricle	A bladdery or inflated dry fruit with a single seed; essential an achene in which the pericarp is significantly larger than the mature seed.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012516) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 57,348 records. This includes:

• data for 25,328 species.
• data for 268 families.
• data from 21 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)