Definition of Synangium. Meaning of Synangium. Synonyms of Synangium

- cluster of sporangia that have become fused in development is called a synangium (pl. synangia). This structure is most prominent in Psilotum and Marattiaceae...
- stems. Psilotum has been interpreted as producing sporangia (fused in a synangium) on the terminus of a stem. Equisetum always produce strobili, but the...
- differ from those in Tmesipteris in having stems with many branches and a synangium with three lobes rather than two. Whisk ferns in the genus Psilotum lack...
- segments. Compare gamophyllous (synonym), apophyllous, and polyphyllous. synangium A fused aggregate of sporangia, e.g. in the trilocular sporangia of the...
- Asterotheca exhibited eusporangia that are partially fused within a larger synangium that is most commonly characterized with four to eight sporangia. The...
- of spores, up to 7,000 spores per sporangium. The presence of a radial synangium is an archaic character, very similar to some of the fossil Asterothecaceae/Psaroniaceae...
- Pachytesta permineralized ovules Trigonocarpus ovule casts Bernaultia synangium Alethopteris leaves Medullosa permineralized stem Myeloxylon permineralized...
- but their tips may be free. The entire structure can be described as a 'synangium'. Blackened material inside the sporangia was ****umed to have been spores...
- however, the side of each sporangium that formed the outer surface of the synangium tended to be thicker than the inwards-facing wall, suggesting that the...