A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Fructificatio,-onis (s.f.III), abl. sg. fructificatione [> L. fructificatio,-onis (s.f.III), a bearing of fruit (Lewis & Short)]: fruit-body, fructification, fruiting structure; “all those parts composing the fruit of plants” (Paxton); "(as used by Linnaeus, the flowering and fruiting organs ending one period of generation and beginning the next one, i.e. calyx, corolla, androecium, gynoiceum, fruit and seed)" (Stearn); “1. fruiting; 2. in Cryptogams, the result of the sexual act; 3. any sporogenous structure or an aggregate of them” (Jackson); (in fungi) fuzz-ball, puff-ball, fruit body of the Lycoperdales; the process or time of bearing fruit; see mushroom; see organa fructificationis (organs of fructification) sub ‘organum.’

NOTE: not the same as ‘inflorescence,’ q.v.;

- Organa fructificationis in regno vegetabili simplicissima, vesicula simplici, granula includente, constare videntur (Agardh), the organs of fructification in the plant kingdom seem to comprise extremely simple [i.e. not at all composite or compounded] ones, with a simple [i.e. composed of a single element] vesicle, enclosing granules.

- [Sphagnum] fructificationis tempus omnium congenerum Europaeorum, reg. temperatae, arcticae et calidioris: aestate, mensib. Julii et Augusti (C. Muell); the TIME OF FRUCTIFICATION [i.e. fruit-development] of all the European congeners [i.e. genus Sphagnum-members], in the temperate, arctic and warmer regions: in summer, in the months of July and August.

- fructificatio Lycoperdi (gen.sg. of Lycoperdon); giant puff-ball, the fruit-body of Lycoperdon.

- fructificatio Calvatiae giganteae (Batsch ex Pers.) Lloyd, the fructification of Calvatia gigantea.

- tempore fructificationis, time of fructification.

- at verrucae fructificationi haud inservientes, but the verrucae are not serving in fructification.

- sub fructificatione, at the time of fruiting.

- genera Rhamnearum pro magna parte habitu plus quam characteribus floralibus v. fructificationis ficta sunt. (B&H), the genera of Rhamnaceae for the most part by the habit more than the floral or fructification characters are false.

- in multis et praecipue physiologicis, ut de structura et formatione partium, de functionibus et valore organorum fructificationis, ab idaeis diu receptis saepe recedi (Agardh), in many respects and expecially physiological ones [physiological], as regarding the structure and formation of parts, regarding the functions and value of the organs or fructification, to depart from ideas long held.

- plantae fructificatione amentiformi; flosculi axin communem obtegunt; plants with an amentiform fructification (inflorescence); the flowerlets covering a common axis.

- semina omnia fertilia; ea in circumferentià fructificationis, apice marginata; in centro, nuda (Necker), the seeds all fertile; those on the circumference of the fructification, bordered at the apex, in the center, naked.

Necker:

- discus communis, fructificationem sustinens, palceaceus (Necker), the disc common [i.e. possessed by all], supporting [check] the fructification [i.e. fruiting organs], paleaceus [i.e. chaffy].

- Discus communis, quo elevatur fructificatio, paleaceus (Necker), the disc is common [i.e. possessed by all], by which the fructification [i.e. fruiting organs] are elevated, paleaceous [i.e. chaffy].

- umbellaeformem fructificationem (Necker), the fructification [i.e. fruiting parts] umbelliform.

- flosculi laterales fructificationis, masculi (Necker), the florets of the fructification [i.e. fruiting parts] lateral, male.

- in omnibus fructifications partibus (Necker), in all the parts of the fructification [i.e. fruiting body].

- commentarium de foecundatione vegetabilium; de eorum seminibus, aliisque fructificationis partibus , &c. in-4. absque iconibus Mannh. 1784 (Necker), commentary on plant fertilization [i.e. on the fertilization of plants]; on their seeds and other parts of the fructification [i.e. fruit body or fruiting structure], &c. in 4 [sc. volumes] lacking illustrations.

- elytriculi staminiferi, periphaeriam centrumque fructificationis occupantes (Necker), the stamen-bearing florets occupying the periphery and center of the fructification [i.e. fruit-body].

- semina ambitus fructificationis , nulla; centri, fertilia , pappo setaceo terminata (Necker), the seeds of the circumference of the fructification [i.e. fruit-body] none; of the center, fertile, terminated by a setaceous pappus.

Double Fructification: “dimorphic fructification in Algae” (Jackson): fructificatio duplex (-icis, adj.B), abl. sg. fructificatione duplici; fructificatio dimorphica or dimorpha, abl. sg. fructificatione dimorphica; nom. pl. fructificationes dimorphicae or dimorphae.