Seed reference record
Cyrtandra kamoolaensis
Gesneriaceae · Endemic · Species Of Concern
Close-up
One seed, filling the frame, focus-stacked. This is where surface texture, hilum position and sculpturing are legible — the characters that separate close relatives.
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Measured
- 0.3–0.4 mm
- length
- 0.13–0.18 mm
- width
- 0.01–0.022 mg
- mass
- Cyrtandra
- genus
Storage behaviour
uncertain
Whether a seed can be dried and frozen decides whether it can be banked at all — which is the first question a seed laboratory asks and one no identification tool usually answers.
Dormancy
No pre-treatment recorded.
Seeds of a similar size
An unknown seed of this size could be any of these. That is the practical value of a measured reference set: it says what a specimen might be confused with, and by how little.
