Seed reference record
Exocarpos menziesii
Santalaceae · Endemic · Endangered
This species has measurements but has not been photographed yet. Imaging the remaining records to the same three-orientation standard is part of the funded work.
Images © Lyon Arboretum Rare Plant Program Seeds Lab, served from SeedsOfHawaii.org
Measured
- 5.24–6.95 mm
- length
- 3.96–4.63 mm
- width
- 36.7–52.89 mg
- mass
- Exocarpos
- genus
Storage behaviour
recalcitrant
Desiccation-sensitive. Cannot survive drying or freezing at −20°C; requires cryopreservation.
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.
