microsporophyll

NOUN
  1. in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia
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How To Use microsporophyll In A Sentence

  • The lunate microsporophylls and densely packed sporangia are consistent with the morphology of other noeggerathialean cones, such as Discinites Feistmanlel.
  • Each fertile shoot is composed of two fused bracteoles, which surround the microsporophyll.
  • Both cone types are of comparable size with helically arranged, imbricate microsporophylls, and have microsporophyll head abaxial cuticles with a thicker papillate central region and a thinner, nonpapillate marginal region.
  • These, as in Gymnosperms, are of two kinds, microspores or pollen-grains, borne in the stamens (or microsporophylls) and megaspores, in which the egg-cell is developed, contained in the ovule, which is borne enclosed in the carpel (or megasporophyll). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • These, as in Gymnosperms, are of two kinds, microspores or pollen-grains, borne in the stamens (or microsporophylls) and megaspores, in which the egg-cell is developed, contained in the ovule, which is borne enclosed in the carpel (or megasporophyll). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • In contrast, C. comptonensis microsporophyll heads have a cutinized hypodermis, and distinctly conical epidermal papillae with pointed apices.
  • The microsporophylls of cycads are arranged in strobili and bear clusters of microsporangia on their abaxial surface.
  • The microsporophyll of Lepidopteris has been reconstructed as a pinnate axis with short branches bearing clusters of small elongate pollen sacs fused at the base.
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