Definition of Sporangia. Meaning of Sporangia. Synonyms of Sporangia

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Definition of Sporangia

Sporangia
Sporangium Spo*ran"gi*um, n.; pl. Sporangia. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a sowing, seed + ? a receptacle.] (Bot.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

Meaning of Sporangia from wikipedia

- Ancient Gr**** σπορά (sporá) 'seed' and ἀγγεῖον (angeîon) 'vessel'; pl.: sporangia) is an enclosure in which spores are formed. It can be composed of a single...
- reproduction, spores are produced inside a spherical structure, the sporangium. Sporangia are supported by a large apophysate columella atop a long stalk, the sporangiop****...
- A sorus (pl.: sori) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores) in ferns and fungi. A coenosorus (pl.: coenosori) is a compound...
- fruits in clusters on dead wood, and has distinctive tall reddish-brown sporangia, supported on slender stalks. The species was first described as Trichia...
- In botany, a sporophyll is a leaf that bears sporangia. Both microphylls and megaphylls can be sporophylls. In heterosporous plants, sporophylls (whether...
- strobili) is a structure present on many land plant species consisting of sporangia-bearing structures densely aggregated along a stem. Strobili are often...
- original description of the genus, Lang described the sporangia as flattened, "with terminal sporangia that are short and wide", and in the species Cooksonia...
- -- such as a single fleshy or amorphous leaf. Fern fronds often bear sporangia, where the plant's spores are formed, usually on the underside (abaxial...
- rain or excessive watering. Their spores are produced on or in aerial sporangia and are spread by wind, however beetles of the family Latridiidae are...
- of germ tubes in vitro, the formation of colonial thalli with multiple sporangia in vivo, and a lower thermal preference. B. dendrobatidis infects the...