Leptosporangium

Quick meaning: Leptosporangium is a noun meaning (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.

Meaning

(botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.

Example Sentences

Leptosporangia are unique among vascular plants in (1) developing from a single cell, and (2) having a single layer of cells making up the sporangium wall.

The characteristic that unites the Filicales as a monophyletic clade is the presence of leptosporangia with an annulus-an area of specialized cells involved in dehiscence.[…]Leptosporangia typically produce only a few spores, and are most commonly homosporous.

2003, Jill Bailey, Filicinophyta (ferns), entry in The Facts on File Dictionary of Botany, page 84, In the Filicales the leptosporangium has a specialized spore dispersal mechanism involving an annulus of cells with thick walls that ejects spores explosively as it dries out.

Word Forms

• leptosporangia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polysporangium, monosporangium, zygosporangium, germosporangium, megasporangium, autosporangium.

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