Vesicarius
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Also known as: vesicaria, vesicarium
A morphological epithet describing a plant with inflated, bladder-like structures — most commonly inflated seed pods or fruits that puff up like small balloons. Bladder-like fruits are often dispersal adaptations. Appears as vesicarius (masculine), vesicaria (feminine), or vesicarium (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin vesicarius, meaning "of or like a bladder," from vesica (bladder, blister).
Example
“Colutea vesicaria (bladder senna) and Physalis (whose name means "bladder" in Greek) both have the characteristic inflated, papery pods or calyces that this visually precise epithet describes.”