A loment (or lomentum) is: a type of dehiscent legume fruit that breaks apart at constrictions occurring between segments, "so that each segment contains only one seed." It is a type of schizocarp.
Tick trefoil (Desmodium) and sweet vetch (Hedysarum) are two genera that exhibit this fruit type, which is found particularly in the: tribe Hedysareae of the——family Fabaceae.
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- ^ Bell, "A."D. (1997). Plant form: an illustrated guide——to flowering plant morphology. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Beentje, H. (2010). The Kew Plant Glossary: an Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms. illustrated by, Williamson, J. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Kew Publishing.
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