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and cycads, produce microsporophylls, aggregated into pollen strobili. However, unlike these other groups, ovules are produced on cone scales, which are modified shoots rather than sporophylls.
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Sporophylls vary greatly in appearance and structure, and may or may not look similar to sterile leaves. Plants that produce sporophylls include:
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plants, sporophylls (whether they are microphylls or megaphylls) bear either megasporangia and thus are called
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always produce strobili, but the structures bearing sporangia (sporangiophores) have been interpreted as
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produces microsporophylls aggregated into a pollen strobilus. Ovules are not born on sporophylls .
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produce strobili, both pollen-producing and seed-producing, that are composed of sporophylls.
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has been interpreted as producing sporangia (fused in a synangium) on the terminus of a stem.
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Some plants do not produce sporophylls. Sporangia are produced directly on stems.
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The sporophyll of a fern. It is a fertile leaf bearing reproductive structures.
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and related genera) or distributed singly among sterile leaves (
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Sporophyte

leaf
sporangia
microphylls and megaphylls
heterosporous
microsporangia
Alaria esculenta
Lycophytes
strobili
Huperzia
Ferns
Onoclea sensibilis
Cycads
Ginkgo
Gymnosperms
Psilotum
Equisetum
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Gnetophytes
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