ft:dehiscence
Description: The mode of opening of a structure, which permits the escape of the content contained within it, e.g. stegocarpous, schizogenous, undehisced. Differentiate this category from Architecture, which emphasizes structural composition of the parts of a structure, e.g., triporate [3-pores].
Notes: Categories were abstracted from 9228 botanical terms used in Flora of North America and Flora of China. [1]This is a collection within the FloraTerms. It contains the following concepts:
By label: aperturate • circumscissile • cleistocarpous • dehiscent • dehiscing • diaperturate • disintegrating • explosive • extrorse • hygrocastique • indehiscence • indehiscent • introrse • latrorse • latrose • loculicidal • loculidical • longitudinal • part_way • partway • poricidal • rupturing • schizogenous • septicidal • septifragal • stegocarpous • subvalvate • undehisced • ventricidal
By concept name: ft:aperturate • ft:circumscissile • ft:cleistocarpous • ft:dehiscent • ft:dehiscing • ft:diaperturate • ft:disintegrating • ft:explosive • ft:extrorse • ft:hygrocastique • ft:indehiscence • ft:indehiscent • ft:introrse • ft:latrorse • ft:latrose • ft:loculicidal • ft:loculidical • ft:longitudinal • ft:part way • ft:partway • ft:poricidal • ft:rupturing • ft:schizogenous • ft:septicidal • ft:septifragal • ft:stegocarpous • ft:subvalvate • ft:undehisced • ft:ventricidal
