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nounthe gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generationstype of:
Definition that contains gametophyte
- musci true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
- marchantiales liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally
- anthocerotales hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida
- class musci true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
- macrospore larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte
- megagametophyte the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores
- order anthocerotales hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida
- bryopsida true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
- family sphaerocarpaceae liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales
- megaspore larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte