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eusporangiate

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From eu- +‎ sporangiate.

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eusporangiate (not comparable)

  1. (botany) That has sporangia that were each formed from several epidermal cells; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eusporangiate ferns.
    • 2005, Philip J. Harris, “11: Diversity in plant cell walls”, in Robert J. Henry, editor, Plant Diversity and Evolution, page 220:
      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, V. Raghavan, Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes[1], page 12:
      In the smaller of the two groups, known as the eusporangiate type, the sporangium originates from several initial cells.
    • 2009, Singh, Pande, Jain, Text Book Of Botany Diversity Of Microbes And Cryptogams, page 468:
      Describe structure and development of leptosporangiate and eusporangiate sporangia. Draw diagrams.

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