Definition of sporangiophore in English:
sporangiophore
nounspəˈran(d)ʒɪə(ʊ)ˌfɔːspəˈranjēəˌfôr
Botany (in a fungus) a specialized hypha bearing sporangia.
Example sentencesExamples
- Generative organs are fertile zones, which are formed by numerous sporangiophores with peltate sporophylls.
- Each sporangiophore bears several sporangia, in which spores develop.
- This form has similarly shaped peltate sporangiophores.
- The fungus can be identified microscopically by the production of its reproductive structures: the sporangiophores and sporangia.
- For example, the sporangiophores are very distinctive but the inner casts of the stems not.