Definition of Megasporophyll. Meaning of Megasporophyll. Synonyms of Megasporophyll

- microphylls or megaphylls) bear either megasporangia and thus are called megasporophylls, or microsporangia and are called microsporophylls. The overlap of...
- phylogenetically derived from ovule-bearing leaves or leaf homologues (megasporophylls), which evolved to form a closed structure containing the ovules. This...
- sporangia-bearing leaves are distinguished as either microsporophylls or megasporophylls. In seed plants, sporangia are typically located within strobili or...
- on female plants, but rather a group of leaf-like structures called megasporophylls each with seeds on the lower margins, and pollen cones or strobilus...
- cone with closed megasporophylls Female cone (megasporophylls) with immature green ovules Female cone with drooping megasporophylls and developing ovules...
- heterosporous plant, giving rise to the female gametophyte. Compare microspore. megasporophyll in hetersoporous plants, a modified leaf bearing one or more megasporangia...
- females in the cycad genus Cycas, which form a loose structure called megasporophylls instead of cones. As with all heterosporous plants, the gametophytes...
- collective term for the female organs (carpels). A carpel is a modified megasporophyll consisting of two or more ovules, which develop conduplicatively (folded...
- bearing pollen cones (strobilus) and the females bearing groups of megasporophylls. Pollination can be done naturally by insects or artificially. Propagation...
- blue at first, becoming dark yellow-green, moderately glossy above. Megasporophylls are thickly covered in orange indumentum and the developing seeds have...