short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants
A short silique, almost equally as long as wide.
A short, broad, often flat, 2-celled fruit of the Mustard Family. See drawing of fruits.
silicula flat dry fruit about as broad as long, splitting around edges to reveal seeds on papery central septum
A dry, dehiscent fruit derived from two or more carpels that dehisce along two sutures and which has a persistent partition after dehiscence and is as broad as, or broader, than long.