androsporangium

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from andro- + sporangium.

Noun

androsporangium (plural androsporangia)

1. A sporangium for androspores.
   • 1889, Wm. Narramore, “Fresh Water Algæ: Œdogoniaceæ”, in The Wesley Naturalist. Monthly Journal of the Wesley Scientific Society., volume II, London: T. Woolmer, page 279:

     The androsporangia produce the androspores which are special kinds of zoospores and give rise to the “dwarf males” as in Œdogonium.

   • 1904, George Stephen West, A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae, page 61:

     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.

   • 2010, N K Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, volume 1, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, →ISBN, page 67:

     The 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.