phanerogam
Noun
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Noun
phanerogam (plural phanerogams)
- (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
- 1977, Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development, page 8 ↗,
- Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
- 2003, Burkhard Frenzel, History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary, Karl Esser, Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Jin Murata (editors), Progress in Botany, Volume 65, page 591 ↗,
- The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams, 20 cryptogams. Among the phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
- 2005, Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, unnumbered page ↗,
- Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams, and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.
- 1977, Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development, page 8 ↗,
- (plant that produces seeds) spermatophyte
- Italian: spermatofita
- Spanish: espermatofita, espermatófita, espermatofito, espermatófito
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