Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the sporocarp in the Muscineæ.
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- noun The
sporophyte of abryophyte (moss , liverwort or hornwort), generally consisting of a foot, seta and capsule.
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Examples
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A, Leafy shoot (g) bearing a young sporogonium enclosed in the calyptra
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The mature sporogonium consists of a wide foot separated by a constriction from the globular capsule (B).
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The development of the sporogonium proceeds as in the Bryales, but the dome-shaped archesporium extends over the summit of the columella and an air-space is wanting.
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The sporogonium has a small foot, but the sterile cells among the spores do not develop into elaters.
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The sporogonium when nearly mature bursts the calyptra irregularly.
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_ The margin of the thallus bears leaf-life lobes. r, Rhizoids; s, sporogonium.
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In none of the liverworts does the sporogonium develop by means of an apical cell, as is the rule in mosses.
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In a number of forms belonging to different groups the end of the stem on which the sporogonium is borne grows downwards so as to form a hollow tubular sac enclosing the sporogonium; in other cases this marsupial sac is formed by the base of the sporogonium boring into the thickened end of the stem.
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Parallel with the evolution of the gametophyte in form and structure, a progression can be traced in the sporogonium, although the simplest sporogonia available for study may owe much of their simplicity to reduction.
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The sporogonium developed from the fertilized ovum grows by means of a two-sided apical cell (fig. 16 A), and is at first of uniform thickness.
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