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Fabaceae

 26-Seeds with closed pleurogram

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Many, but by no means all, seeds of caesalpinoid legumes have a closed pleurogram (this subfamily never has a U-shaped pleurogram).
Photo by K. R. Robertson from seeds in the Illinois Natural History Survey herbarium.
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