sporophyte (plural sporophytes)

1. (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

• megasporophyte
• sporangium
• spore
• sporogenesis
• sporophytic

• German: Sporophyt
• Portuguese: esporófito
• Spanish: esporófito