Diaspore (botany)

Collectively, diaspores, seeds, and spores that have been modified for migration are known as disseminules.

This is most notable in Australian and South African sclerophyll plant communities.

Fruit-eating bats typically carry the diaspore to a favorite perch, where they eat the fruit and discard the seed.

These occur in a variety of weedy and ruderal species native to steppes and deserts.

[2] Although in some species the diaspore is a foxtail, in a few (the "tumble grasses") it is like a tumbleweed[citation needed].