sporangium
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025094
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- alt_id: PO:0025232
- exact: esporangio (Spanish)
- exact: 胞子嚢 (Japanese)
- exact: moss capsule
- exact: sporangia
- exact: spore capsule
- exact: spore case
- Definition
- A plant organ (PO:0009008) in which plant spores (PO:0025017) are produced. [source: ISBN:0716710072, POC:curators]
- Comment
- In bryophytes, particularly in mosses, a sporangium is referred to as a capsule. In seed plants, a sporangium is located in a sporophyll. In pteridophytes, a sporangium is located on the surface of a sporophyll or fertile leaf or borne on a sporangiophore. May be unicellular in some algae.
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