Definition of microsporangium. Meaning of microsporangium. Synonyms of microsporangium

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Definition of microsporangium

Microsporangium
Microsporangium Mi`cro*spo*ran"gi*um, n. [NL. See Micro-, and Sporangium.] (Bot.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

Meaning of microsporangium from wikipedia

- A microsporangium (pl. microsporangia) is a sporangium that produces microspores that give rise to male gametophytes when they germinate. Microsporangia...
- which provides nutrition for growing spores . The innermost wall of microsporangium Tapetum lucidum, a reflective tissue layer ****ociated with the retina...
- side of the anther. A pollen grain develops from a microspore in the microsporangium and contains the male gametophyte. The size of anthers differs greatly...
- heterosporous, having two spore types, microspores (male) produced in microsporangium and megaspores (female) produced in megasporangium that are typically...
- the stigma of another flower on the same flowering plant, or from microsporangium to ovule within a single (monoecious) gymnosperm. Some plants have...
- microsporangia, or pollen sacs, of the anthers on the stamens. Each microsporangium contains diploid microspore mother cells, or microsporocytes. Each...
- producing large spores that contain the female gametophytes. Compare microsporangium. megaspore the larger of two kinds of spores produced by a heterosporous...
- separate sporangia, either a megasporangium that produces megaspores or a microsporangium that produces microspores. In flowering plants, these sporangia occur...
- produces one or more microsporangia. Microspores develop within the microsporangium by meiosis. In a willow (like all seed plants) the zygote first develops...
- spores (microspores) are extremely small and are produced inside each microsporangium. Microspores tend to adhere in clumps called m****ulae. Female sporocarps...