Relating to or characteristic of the Ceratotheca plant genus or its distinctive horn-shaped seed pods.
From ceratotheca (horn-case plant) + '-al' (relating to). A straightforward adjective form describing features belonging to this plant group.
Ceratothecal structures in African plants reveal a beautiful example of convergent evolution—many unrelated African plants independently evolved the same horn-shaped seed pods because the savanna ecosystem rewards this particular design.
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