- botany, a
sporophyll is a leaf that
bears sporangia. Both
microphylls and
megaphylls can be
sporophylls. In
heterosporous plants,
sporophylls (whether...
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modified leaves or
modified stems.
Leaves that bear
sporangia are
called sporophylls,
while sporangia-bearing
stems are
called sporangiop****s. Some members...
- surface. Male and
female sporophylls are
spirally aggregated into
determinate cones that grow
along the axis.
Female sporophylls are simple,
appearing peltate...
- Tri****ic-Jur****ic,
Europe Archaeocycas Early Permian,
Texas (leaf with
sporophylls)
Aricycas Late Tri****ic,
Arizona (leaf form genus)
Beania (=Sphaereda)...
- In insect- or bird-pollinated plants,
other structures protect the
sporophylls and
attract pollinators. The
individual members of
these surrounding...
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female and
others being male. Male
plants produce small pollen cones with
sporophylls, each
bearing two
microsporangia spirally arranged around a
central axis...
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circinate vernation.
Leaves are
divided into two types:
sporophylls and tropophylls.
Sporophylls produce spores;
tropophylls do not. Fern
spores are borne...
-
which consisted of four
vertical rows of fan-shaped leaf-like
organs (
sporophylls), each with a
stalked sporangium on the side
facing the stem (adaxial)...
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leaves or
laterally on stems.
Leaves that bear
sporangia are
called sporophylls. If the
plant is heterosporous, the sporangia-bearing
leaves are distinguished...
-
equivalent of hispid.
strobilus A cone-like
structure consisting of
sporophylls (e.g.
conifers and club mosses) or sporangiop****s (e.g. in Equisetopsida)...
