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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nutlet

 

(also nucule), a single-seeded, indehiscent fruitlet of an apocarpous fruit (for example, in the buttercup). Sometimes other small single-seeded fruits (the paracarpous fruits of fumitory; the lysicarpous fruits of buckwheat), the fruits of Boraginaceae and Labiatae, and the mericarps of Euphorbiaceae are called nutlets.

The Russian term for nutlet, oreshek, is used to designate a nutgall, a spherical or fleshy node caused by insects on the leaves and stems of plants (for example, nutgall of oak).

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Tiger nuts which are incorrectly called "nuts" or "nutlets," thus the origin of their common name, are small about the size of a peanut growing at the rhizome of the plant [13].
Scutella classified as aborted remained immature, were about one-fourth the size of mature scutella, and contained no nutlets. Other scutella quickly turned from green to yellow and more slowly turned brown in color (Table 3) and only yellow or brown scutella were observed dehiscing.
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The Betuloideae share features such as laminar secondary bracts and one to three flowers in the pistillate cyme, tepals in the staminate flower, tracheids in wood, pollen with arci and nutlets with wings.
Micromorphology, anatomy and mixocarpy of nutlets of selected Micromeria species (Lamiaceae).
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FRUIT: 1" strobile with winged nutlets; NOT ORNAMENTAL.
Cumulative flower production over the 3-wk experimental pollination period, and total number of ripe fruits (the unit formed by the persistent calyx plus the enclosed ripe nutlets) eventually produced, were determined for each marked inflorescence using methods based on marking individual flowers, as described in Herrera (1991).
Upon maturity, the ovary is a smooth, dry, four-lobed, schizocarpic fruit that fragments into four, single-seeded mericarps (nutlets).