• A sporangium (from Late Latin, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá) 'seed' and ἀγγεῖον (angeîon) 'vessel'); pl.: sporangia) is an enclosure in which spores...
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    floor. The sporangium reaches a total height of 2–8 mm, while the black, hair-like stalk is usually two to six times the length of the sporangium. The color...
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    horse then eats the substrate, unknowingly consuming the sporangium as well. The Pilobolus sporangium survives the passage through the gastrointestinal tract...
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    sporangium that contains uninucleate, haploid sporangiospores. An extension of the sporangiophore called the columella protrudes into the sporangium....
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    annulus around the sporangium, which ejects the spores. Eusporangiate ferns do not generally have specialized dehiscence mechanisms. Sporangium dehiscence through...
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    known for their strong phototropism response and helical growth of the sporangium. The best studied species is Phycomyces blakesleeanus. Phycomyces can...
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    not. This results in diploid and haploid nuclei being found in the germ sporangium. Zygomycetes exhibit a special structure of cell wall. Most fungi have...
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  • annulus in botany is for ferns an arc or a ring of specialized cells on the sporangium. These cells are arranged in a single row, and are associated with the...
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    Hypnum (section Sporangium)
    Orientation of the sporangium can be erect, inclined, or horizontal. Sporangium shape varies from cylindrical to ovoid. The sporangium is also typically...
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    They consist of a stalk called a seta and a single sporangium or capsule. Inside the sporangium, haploid spores are produced by meiosis. These are dispersed...
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    are usually haploid and unicellular and are produced by meiosis in the sporangium of a diploid sporophyte. In some rare cases, diploid spore is also produced...
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    Phylctochytrium sp. Sporangium and zoospores of the chytrid fungus B. dendrobatidis, under a scanning electron microscope Chytrid sporangium and zoospores under...
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    side of the Czapek's agar; (c) Sporophore and spherical sporangium; (d) Conidia and sporangium with bilayer structure Scientific classification Domain:...
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  • rim of the sporangium and where the peristome teeth are attached. Apophysis – a swelling, typically referring to the base of the sporangium. Archesporium...
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    the sporangium), the sporangium (the structure where spores mature), and the operculum (a flap that covers the end of the developing sporangium). In...
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    shoot their sporangium, containing their spores, up to 2 m (6.6 ft) away. Due to an increase of pressure in the vesicle, the sporangium can accelerate...
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    it has been suggested that the depression may mark the position of a sporangium. As the branch of a Lepidodendron lycopsid grew the leaf-cushion only...
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    Pennate diatom from an Arctic meltpond, infected with two chytrid-like [zoo-]sporangium fungal pathogens (in false-colour red). Scale bar = 10 μm....
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    sporangia without the rest of the sporophyte. Sorus of monarch fern, with sporangium Gametophyte (thallus) and sporophyte (ascendant frond) of Onoclea sensibilis...
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    Zygospore Ascospore/Ascus Basidiospore/Basidium/Teliospore anamorph/asexual: Sporangium Conidium Chlamydospore Oidium Pycniospore Other Hypha Haustorium Mycelium...
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    single large female meiospore or megaspore contained in the modified sporangium or nucellus of the parent sporophyte. The evolution of heterospory and...
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  • spores. In meiotic sporogenesis, a diploid spore mother cell within the sporangium undergoes meiosis, producing a tetrad of haploid spores. In organisms...
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    (sporophylls) arranged in a cone-like strobilus at the end of upright stems. Each sporangium contains numerous small spores. The club-shaped appearance of these fertile...
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    A late Silurian sporangium bearing trilete spores. Such spores provide the earliest evidence of life on land. Green: A spore tetrad. Blue: A spore bearing...
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    reproduction, sporangiospores are produced inside a spherical structure, the sporangium. Sporangia are supported by a large apophysate columella atop a long stalk...
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    Rhizopus microsporus Rhizopus microsporus sporangium containing sporangiospores Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Fungi Division: Mucoromycota...
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    branching, thallose (flat and expanded) protonema, and explosively rupturing sporangium place it apart from other mosses. Andreaeopsida and Andreaeobryopsida...
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  • is a specialised spherical sporangium produced by some species of fungi, smaller than or secondary to the typical sporangium. Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt (1895)...
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  • carpet or tapestry) can refer to: Tapetum (botany), tissue within the sporangium (especially the anther), which provides nutrition for growing spores ...
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  • Sporangiophore, sporangium, and spores of Mucor specimen....
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