Fig. 9: Samaras are robust to wing area ablation.
From: Maple samara flight is robust to morphological perturbation and united by a classic drag model

a Area ratio A/A0 vs velocity ratio V/V0, b area ratio A/A0 vs rotational velocity ratio ω/ω0, c area ratio A/A0 vs angular ratio θ/θ0, and d weight mg to drag.