Sporophyte
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A sporophyte is one of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants and algae. It is a diploid multicellular organism which produces asexual spores. This stage alternates with
Young sporophytes of the common moss Tortula muralis. In mosses, the gametophyte is the dominant generation, while the sporophytes consist of sporangium-bearing stalks growing from the tips of the gametophytes
Sporophytes of moss during spring
In flowering plants, the sporophyte comprises the whole multicellular body except the pollen and embryo sac
Cleistocarpous sporophyte of the moss Physcomitrella patens
Fern
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Ferns are a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They reproduce in two phases, a short-lived gametophyte that reproduces sexually to develop a spore-b
Sporophyte
…gametophytes and sporophytes are morphologically similar (isomorphic). An independent sporophyte is the dominant form in all clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms that have survived to the present day. Early land plants had sporophytes that produced identical spores (isosporous or…
The ferns of Great Britain, and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails
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Flickr brewbooks Angiopteris evecta Mule's foot fern
WP2 Hymenophyllum Exkursion nach Berdorf 011