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From: baxter@navajo.UUCP (Ray Baxter)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Technical term wanted
Message-ID: <2035@navajo.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 21:54:32 GMT
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Organization: Biological Sciences, Stanford University
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Keywords: moss, reproduction
Summary: Antheridia, archegonia and spore capsules

In article <1953@houxa.UUCP> edwards@houxa.UUCP (D.LEWAN) writes:
>I am looking for the technical term for the reproductive parts of
>mosses. ...  Are they spore capsules?
>Doug

Maybe.  It depends upon what you mean by "reproductive parts."  You are
probably seeing the sporophyte, a long filament which ends in a capsule
which produces spores.  Spore capsule is a fine term for this.

The sperms and eggs of mosses are produced in structures known as 
antheridia and archegonia.  The product of the fusion of egg and
sperm is the sporophyte, which grows out of the archegonia.

Ray


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