Embryo small, as wide or wider than high and restricted to the lower half of the seed; seeds usually medium to large, endosperm abundant and generally starchy, cotyledons minute or larger.
Eriocaulon carsonii
Embryo small and restricted to the lower half of the seed, expanded above into a head-like form; seeds usually medium to large, endosperm abundant and starchy, cotyledons minute.
Baumea laxa (stained)
Baumea laxa (stained embryo)
Embryo basal-lateral or lateral, inclined to expand in the plane of the periphery, endosperm always starchy, small to half or rarely larger.
Amphibromus archeri (seed)
Amphibromus archeri
Amphibromus archeri (transverse cut)
Embryo ordinarily elongate and large, quarter to dominant, contiguous in part at least to the testa and often curved, perisperm (not endosperm) conspicuously starchy, central or in a few instances lateral.
Maireana excavate
Malacocera tricornis
Ptilotus beckerianus
Techicornia lepidosperma
Ptilotus beckerianus
transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo small in relation to endosperm and seed with Embryo:Seed length ratio of ≤ 0.5. Embryo as wide as long.
Ranunculus pentandrus
Ranunculus sessiliflora ssp.
pilulifer
Ranunculus sessiliflora ssp.
pilulifer (transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo small in relation to endosperm and seed with Embryo:Seed length ratio of ≤ 0.5. Embryo longer than wide.
Billardiera sericophora
Veronica parnkalliana
Pratia irrigua
Lomandra multiflora ssp. dura
Billardiera sericophora
(transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo large in relation to endosperm or endosperm lacking with Embryo:Seed length ratio of > 0.5. Cotyledon(s) not expanded, embryo longer than wide. Can be straight, bent, curved or coiled.
Boronia edwardsii
(linear straight embryo)
Correa calycina
(linear bent embryo)
Codonocarpus pyramidalis
(linear coiled embryo)
Arthropodium strictum
(linear coiled embryo)
Codonocarpus pyramidalis
(transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo small in relation to endosperm and seed with Embryo:Seed length ratio of ≤ 0.5. Embryo spoon-shaped.
Wahlenbergia queenslandica
Wahlenbergia queenslandica
(transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo large in relation to endosperm or endosperm lacking with Embryo:Seed length ratio of > 0.5. Cotyledons expanded and wider than the stalk but not invested into the stalk.
Goodenia berardiana
(excised embryo)
Stackhousia annua
Zygophyllum simile
Senecio glossanthus
(excised embryo)
Zygophyllum simile
(transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo large in relation to endosperm or endosperm lacking with Embryo:Seed length ratio of > 0.5. Cotyledons expanded and wider than the stalk and invested into the stalk.
Acacia pinguifolia
Allocasuarina robusta
Hovea purpurea
Acacia pinguifolia (transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo large in relation to endosperm or endosperm lacking with Embryo:Seed length ratio of > 0.5. Cotyledons expanded and wider than the stalk which is jackknife bent.
Carinavalva glauca
Daviesia arenaria
Harmsiodoxa blennodioides
Swainsona tephrotrica
Swainsona tephrotrica
(transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and is differentiated into organs. Embryo large in relation to endosperm or endosperm lacking with Embryo:Seed length ratio of > 0.5. Cotyledons expanded and wider than the stalk and is folded in various ways.
Sida goniocarpa
(excised embryo)
Sida argillacea
Dodonaea procumbens
(excised embryo)
Eucalyptus falciformis
Sida goniocarpa
(transverse cut)
Endosperm if present is non-starchy. Embryos not peripheral and not differentiated into organs.
No example.