Key to Species of Cariniana Inflorescence predominantly terminal and subterminal; pyxidium without teeth at line of opercular dehiscence.
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Pyxidium
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6 entriesbox shaped fruiting bodycapsule like structureflask shaped receptaclepyxidium anatomypyxidium morphologyspore bearing cavity
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The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical form of that of Couratari, but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance.
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The capsule of gold−beater's skin, in which the grubs of the Cione are enclosed, divides itself, at the moment of liberation, into two hemispheres "of a regularity so perfect that they recall exactly the bursting of the pyxidium when the seed is distributed".
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A fruit of this kind is sometimes termed a pyxidium; that is, a little chest.
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