Zingiberaceae

Fruit dehiscent, loculicidalloculicidal:
type of capsular dehiscence, opening longitudinally through the locules (compare septicidal)
capsulecapsule:
a dry, dehiscent fruit formed by two or more carpels
or rarely indehiscentindehiscent:
not opening on its own, as in a fruit
, berryberry:
an indehiscent, fleshy fruit with one or a few to many seeds. The flesh may be homogenous throughout. Or, if the outer part is hard, firm, or leathery, referred to as an hesperidium. Septa are present in some, and the seeds may be arillate or with a fleshy testa.
, 4–130 mm long, globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to torulosetorulose:
3D shape—a cylindrical or ellipsoid body that is swollen and constricted at intervals; torulose
, angledangled:
2D shape—having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles  
or tereteterete:
approximately circular in cross section; width and thickness approximately equal
in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, sometimes with persistent sepalssepals:
a member of the outer envelope of a flower (calyx)
at apexapex:
the point farthest from the point of attachment, or the "tip" of an organ
, sometimes with persistent bracts, few to many seeded. Fruits sometimes with crispedcrisped:
irregularly curled, wavy or crinkled
, undulateundulate:
wavy-margined
to crenulatecrenulate:
finely crenate (scalloped)
wings. Pericarppericarp:
fruit wall or fruit coat
orange, yellow, purple, green, gray, black, or brown, shinyshiny:
uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles
or dulldull:
reflecting only a low proportion of incident light, with no apparent sheen
, drydry:
texture—free or relatively free from water or liquid
or fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
, smooth, wartywarty:
surface relief—distinct, rounded projections that are large relative to the fruit size; tuberculate, verrucose
, wrinkledwrinkled:
surface relief—shallow, irregular folds and furrows covering the surface; appearing overall though crumpled and then spread out
, ribbedribbed:
surface relief—wide, prominent, linear ridges that are generally rounded and longitudinally situated on the surface
, striatestriate:
surface relief—having fine, parallel lines, grooves or ridges
, or soft spinyspiny:
having slender, stiff, sharp projections oriented in the general plane of the structure
, sometimes with white, brown, or red hairs.

Seed globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to angularangular:
2D shape—having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles  
, 1.5–7 mm long, often with a thinthin:
having or being of relatively little depth
, white (or yellow to red) veil-like, lobed arilaril:
(broad sense) appendicular structure that wholly or partly envelops a seed and is produced from or a modification of the funicle, raphe, or outer integument; usually fleshy or pulpy, sometimes spongy or tufted-capillate, often brightly colored
adnate to the hilumhilum:
on seeds, the scar indicating where the funiculus was attached; on grass caryopses, the scar visible on the outer caryopsis surface revealing where the seed is attached on the inner fruit wall surface; or in Asteraceae cypselae, the scar visible on the pericarp revealing where the fruit was attached to the receptacle
, with an operculumoperculum:
a dehiscent cap (or lid) of a seed or fruit that opens during germination or dehiscence
next to the radicleradicle:
the embryonic root of the embryo
(absent in Hedychieae). Seed coat encrusted with phytomelanphytomelan:
carbonaceous, opaque material that usually covers the seed coat to give it a black appearance, common in certain monocot families
, black, red, yellow, purple, brown, or gray, shinyshiny:
uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles
, wrinkledwrinkled:
surface relief—shallow, irregular folds and furrows covering the surface; appearing overall though crumpled and then spread out
or wartywarty:
surface relief—distinct, rounded projections that are large relative to the fruit size; tuberculate, verrucose
.

Embryo well developed, linearlinear:
(shape) long, narrow, and uniform in width; (of embryo) embryo is straight and much longer than wide
, straight, partially filling seed coat, extending into a depression or cup. Perispermperisperm:
seed nutritive tissue comparable to the endosperm, but derived from the nucellus (maternal tissue)
copious.