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| the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels |
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| tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes |
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| an organ of many plants that contains the reproductive structures. Strobili are ordinarily called cones |
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| cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond |
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| a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern |
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| a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar |
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| a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants |
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| a division of primitive plants that are also called wisk ferns (they are not true ferns). |
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| structure formed by the fusion of sporangia |
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| a plant or fungal structure producing and containing spores |
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| includes the clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts |
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| larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte |
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| a plant structure that produces megaspores |
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| a specialised leaf upon which (or in the axil of which) one or more megasporangia are borne. |
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| smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants |
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| a plant structure that produces microspores |
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| in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia |
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| The reproductive structure that produces female gametes. |
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| the reproductive structure that produces male gametophytes |
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| producing only one type of spore from which develops a gametophyte producing both male and female gametes |
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| producing two kinds of spores (male and female, or microspores and megaspores). |
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