Dehiscence (botany) - Sporangium Dehiscence in Ferns

Sporangium Dehiscence in Ferns

Many leptosporangiate ferns have an annulus around the sporangium, which ejects the spores. Eusporangiate ferns do not generally have specialized dehiscence mechanisms.

  • Sporangium dehiscence through a horizontal slit in Botrychium, a eusporangiate fern.

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