sporophyte

sporophyte

English

Etymology

From sporo- (“spore”) +‎ -phyte (“plant”).

Noun

sporophyte (plural sporophytes)

1. (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

Related terms

• megasporophyte
• sporangium
• spore
• sporogenesis
• sporophytic

Translations

plant which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes

Danish: sporofyt c Faroese: gróliður Finnish: sporofyytti, itiöpolvi German: Sporophyt (de) m Hungarian: sporofiton, ivartalan szakasz, ivartalan nemzedék Icelandic: gróliður Norwegian: sporofytt Portuguese: esporófito (pt) m Spanish: esporófito m Swedish: sporofyt c

See also

• gametophyte

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French

Noun

sporophyte f (plural sporophytes)

1. sporophyte

Further reading

• “sporophyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.