Devil-in-a-bush

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Nigella (Devil In A Bush) is a genus of annual herb in the family Ranunculaceae. They have capsule fruit.

• URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0980071
• Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span ends within one year after germination, e.g. a winter annual germinating in the autumn and flowering in the spring (esp. in Mediterranean climates), approximately synonymous to therophyte, c.f. biennial, ephemeral, perennial, c.f. also of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic.
• Attribution: <Stevens, P. F. %282001 onwards%29. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary, http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossarya%5Fh.html#annual>

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• URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0030091
• Definition: a fruit which develops from a gynoecium and at maturity comprises a dry exocarp, dry mesocarp, and dry endocarp that usually dehisce

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