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Sporangia are the structures that house the spore-forming cells. After the spore-forming cells undergo meiosis to form spores, the spores will be in the sporangia. ('Sporangium' is the singular of 'sporangia'). |
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Each sorus contains a cluster of sporangia. You will see this more clearly in the spore dispersal movie. Each circular brown structure is a sorus in the individual sporangia appear as brown specks. |
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This single sporangium is one of the brown specks in the diagram above. This particular sporangium is mature: the spore mother cells have undergone meiosis to form spores inside. | |
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