(of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
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Examples of 'leptosporangiate' in a sentence
leptosporangiate
Gametangia are of the common type for the leptosporangiate advanced ferns.
Blanca Pérez-García, Aniceto Mendoza, Irma Reyes Jaramillo, Ramón Riba 2001, 'Morfogénesis de la fase sexual de seis especies mexicanas del género Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae):Parte II', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442001000100025. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The gametangia are of the common leptosporangiate-type.
Irma Reyes Jaramillo, Blanca Pérez-García, Aniceto Mendoza 2000, 'Fase gametofítica del helecho Llavea cordifolia (Pteridaceae).', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442000000100003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)