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A sporocarp is a specialised type of structure found in specimens have been successfully germinated after being
some ferns whose primary function is the production and stored for more than forty years. Each growing season,
release of spores.
only one sporocarp develops per node along the rhizome
near the base of the other leaf-stalks.
The sporocarps are functionally and developmentally
modied leaves, although they have much shorter stalks
than the vegetative leaves. Inside the sporocarp, the modied leaets bear several sori, each of which consists of
several sporangia covered by a thin hood of tissue (the
indusium). Each sorus includes a mix of two types of
sporangium, each type producing only one of two kinds
of spores. Toward the center of each sorus and developing rst are the megasporangia, each of which will
produce a single large female megaspore. Surrounding
them at the edge of the sorus and developing later are the
microsporangia, each of which will produce many small
male microspores.
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