Biology

a thin false dissepiment separating the two valves of some fruits (as siliques and some legumes) from which the valves fall away at maturity.

a thin false septum separating the two valves of some fruits (as siliques and some legumes) from which the valves fall away at maturity.

Replum is the frame-like placenta, across which the septum stretches, from which the valves of a capsule or other dehiscent fruit fall away in dehiscence, as in Cruciferae, certain Papaveraceae, Mimosa, etc. sometimes incorrectly applied to the