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A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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- 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.
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a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sporangium, spore case, spore sac
From lepto- + sporangium.
