plant spore
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025017
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: espora (Spanish)
- exact: 植物胞子 (Japanese)
- broad: diaspore
- broad: spore
- Definition
- A whole plant (PO:0000003) that arises through meiosis and is contained in a spore wall. [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- A spore is usually single-celled in homosporous plants but may be multicellular in heterosporous plants. May have a spore wall (GO:0031160) made of sporopollenin.
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