Sporogonium is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
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First recorded in 1870-75; sporo- + -gonium
The sporogonium when nearly mature bursts the calyptra irregularly.
The details of construction of the sporogonium are referred to below.
With the possible exception of Archidium, the sporogonium is throughout the Bryales constructed on one plan.
The sporogonium has a small foot, but the sterile cells among the spores do not develop into elaters.
The sporogonium is of large size and highly organized, though it presents peculiar features in the peristome.
In none of the liverworts does the sporogonium develop by means of an apical cell, as is the rule in mosses.
Notothylas resembles Anthoceros in its thallus, but the sporogonium is much smaller.
Fertilization takes place about June, and the sporogonium is fully developed by the winter.
The perianth serves also to enclose and protect the sporogonium during its development.
In contrast to the sexual generation this stage is called the spore-bearing generation (sporogonium, sporophyte).
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