Meanings
- not comparablebiologyThat has sporangia that were each formed from several epidermal cells; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ferns of this kind.
Describe structure and development of leptosporangiate and eusporangiate sporangia. Draw diagrams.
2009, Singh, Pande, Jain, Text Book Of Botany Diversity Of Microbes And Cryptogams, page 4682 more examples
Bailey and Pain (1971) examined the walls of a wide range of species of ferns (both leptosporangiate and eusporangiate) and divided the species into three groups depending on whether their walls contained low (0-3%), medium or high (>10%) concentrations of mannose.
2005, Philip J. Harris, “11: Diversity in plant cell walls”, in Robert J. Henry, editor, Plant Diversity and Evolution, page 220In the smaller of the two groups, known as the eusporangiate type, the sporangium originates from several initial cells.
2005, V. Raghavan, Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes, page 12
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells
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Origin
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