Loculicidal (loculicidus). Opening along the median line of the outer wall of the ovary-or fruit-cells (along the dorsal suture of the carpels).
Lyrate (lyratus). Lyre-shaped, i.e., pinnately divided with a large and rounded terminal lobe and small lateral ones.
Male Flower (flos masculus). A flower containing fertile (pollen-producing) stamens, but no fertile carpels.
Median (medianus). Placed in the middle-line of a bilateral organ.
Mericarp (mericarpium). Partial fruit, i.e., one of the parts into which a schizocarp separates.
Merous (merus). With the parts of the flower consisting of a certain number of divisions or leaves, e.g., dimerous = with the parts in twos.
Mesocarp (mesocarpium). The intermediate layer of the pericarp.
Micropyle (micropyle). The aperture in the coats of the ovule.
Monoecious (monoicus). Unisexual and the flowers of both sexes on the same plant.
Mucronate (mucronatus). Ending in a short bristle-like point (mucro).