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nounthe spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generationstype of:
Definition that contains sporophyte
- sporophore a 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 sporophyte
- psilotales lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots
- dicranales widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems
- order dicranales widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems
- apogamy (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
- order psilotales lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots