Definition of Sporogonium

1. Noun. The sporophyte of a bryophyte (moss, liverwort or hornwort), generally consisting of a foot, seta and capsule. ¹

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Definition of Sporogonium

1. [n -NIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporogonium

sporocarps
sporocysts
sporocyte
sporocytes
sporodochium
sporogeneses
sporogenesis
sporogenetic
sporogenic
sporogenous
sporogonia
sporogonic
sporogonies
sporogonium (current term)
sporoid
sporont
sporophores
sporophoric
sporophyl
sporophyll
sporophylls
sporophyls
sporophytes
sporophytic
sporoplasm

Literary usage of Sporogonium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"VI THE sporogonium OF MUSCI 1. STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT. The vegetative differentiation of the Musci is much more uniform than that of the Hepaticae, ..."

2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"The first four segments of the embryo sporogonium arranged like the quadrants of a ... Matured sporogonium consisting of a capsule without stalk or foot, ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"sporogonium of marchantia.—If we examine the plant shown in fig. 181 we shall see oval bodies which stand out be- Fig. 363. ..."

4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"sporogonium of marchantia.—If we examine the plant shown in fig. 181 we shall see oval bodies which stand out be- Fig. l63. ..."

5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"sporogonium of marchantia.-—If we examine the plant shown in fig. 181 we shall see oval bodies which stand out be- Fig. »63. ..."

6. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"THE sporogonium OK FRUIT a. External Characters If we examine a fertile specimen of Pellia about February, we can easily recognise the young fruits on the ..."

7. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"A, a young leaf-bearing plant (g), with the calyptra (c). B, a plant (g) with nearly ripe sporogonium; s, its seta; j, ..."

8. The Nature Library by Doubleday, Page & Co., Firm, Publ (1907)
"Portions of a growing sporogonium, or of leaves, or of stems, may produce protonema. Special buds or gemmae are also formed on many species. ..."

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