reproductive structure

Noun
  1. The parts of a plant involved in its reproduction (synset 111696293)
    is a type of: plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
    subtypes:
    • agamete - an asexual reproductive cell
    • fructification - organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
    • gleba - fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
    • hymenium - spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia
    • spore case, sporocarp - specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia
    • bloom, blossom, flower - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
    • stamen - the male reproductive organ of a flower
    • anther - the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk
    • pistil - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
    • style - (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
    • stigma - the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
    • ovary - the organ that bears the ovules of a flower
    • ovule - a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization
    • placenta - that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form
    • placentation - arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary
    • episperm, seed coat, testa - protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants
    • endosperm - nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
    • gemma - small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual
    • cone, strobile, strobilus - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
    • basidium - a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
    • antheridium - the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers
    • sporangium, spore case, spore sac - organ containing or producing spores
    • ascus - saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
    • sporophore - a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte
    • gametangium - cell or organ in which gametes develop
    • gametoecium - gametangia and surrounding bracts
    • gametophore - a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts
    • sorus - cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond
    • sorus - a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi
    • fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

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