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nouna spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophytetype of:
Definition that contains sporophore
- fomes genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees
- thelephoraceae fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores
- rhizopogon a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers
- family rhizopogonaceae a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores
- genus rhizopogon a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers
- auriculariaceae fungi having gelatinous sporophores
- tremella fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain
- family thelephoraceae fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores
- genus tremella fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain
- rhizopogonaceae a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores