Editing Crocus (section)

=== Fruit and seed ===
The fruit is a small membranous  [[Capsule (botany)|capsule]], ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid in shape and the many [[seed]]s are globose to ellipsoid. The seed surface is highly variable, including [[:wikt:papillate|papillate]] (covered in small protuberances), [[digitiform]] (finger-like) and other epidermal cell types. In some species the seeds are [[arillate]], with fleshy appendages. Crocus seeds have both inner and outer [[seed#seed coat|integuments]] and in some species the outer epidermis may display long papillae. [[Embryo-sac]] development is Polygonum type. [[Dehiscence (botany)|Dehiscence]] (splitting of the capsule to release the seed) is of the [[loculicidal]] type in which it splits through the wall of the locules leaving the septa that separate them intact.{{sfn|Goldblatt et al|1998|pp=306,309–310}}{{sfn|Mabberley|1997}}{{sfn|Koocheki|Khajeh-Hosseini|2020}}