mericarps

The distinctive dolphin-shaped mericarps are sometimes used in necklaces.
Mericarps with an aperture adaxially at middle, ribs with a scar at middle.
正面的有一个孔的分果爿是在中部，有一块伤疤在中部的肋骨。
Fruit a large, oblate schizocarp, depressed at apex, breaking up into laterally compressed woody mericarps.
果一大，扁球形，在先端背腹扁平，裂开为侧面压扁的木质分果爿。
Cremocarp A dry fruit splitting into two one-seeded portions. The portions are termed mericarps.
Calyx teeth minute; styles short; both mericarps developing in fruit.
Stamens 4; inflorescence axillary; mericarps abaxially acute.
Mericarps 5-18, indehiscent, reddish brown, horseshoe-shaped with a prominent ventral notch, sometimes 2- or 3-cuspidate.
分果爿5-18，不裂，红棕色，马蹄形有一突出的腹面槽口的，有时2或3骤尖。
Fruit dry, without evident mesocarp, divided at maturity into 4 1-seeded mericarps; annual herbs.
没有明显中果皮，果干燥，裂成熟时进分果爿41种子；一年生草本的草本。
Stems subglabrous or stellate puberulent, rooting at nodes; mericarps with 2 short awns.
茎近无毛或星状微柔毛，节上生根；有2的分果爿短的芒。
Corolla 6-8 cm wide; mericarps with lateral edges rounded, walls separating readily from seed.
花冠6-8厘米宽；有横向边缘的分果爿绕行，墙容易与种子分开。