Meanings
plural androsporangia
- A sporangium for androspores.
The androsporangia produce the androspores which are special kinds of zoospores and give rise to the “dwarf males” as in Œdogonium.
1889, Wm. Narramore, “Fresh Water Algæ: Œdogoniaceæ”, in The Wesley Naturalist. Monthly Journal of the Wesley Scientific Society., volume II, London: T. Woolmer, page 2792 more examples
The androsporangium is usually produced in the neighbourhood of an oogonium and becomes the mother-cell of a motile ciliated spore known as an androspore, intermediate in size between an antherozoid and a zoogonidium.
1904, George Stephen West, A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae, page 61The androsporangia are formed in a series by the repeated transverse division of any vegetative cell of a large filament. The contents of each androsporangium are metamorphosed into a single androspore.
2010, N K Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, volume 1, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, →ISBN, page 67
Origin
From New Latin, from andro- + sporangium.
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