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adj. - Relating to or characterized by (in cryptogamous plants) the male reproductive organ within which the male sexual cells are organized

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  • To study them in their natural position, thin longitudinal sections of the antheridial branch should be made.
  • Fructification: ovate spores and tufts of antheridial cells attached to the lateral ramuli, which consist of minute, radiating, dichotomous beaded filaments.
  • In very few cases has anything representing prothallial development been observed; generally a small cell (the antheridial or generative cell) is cut off, leaving a...
  • Reproduction by zoospores formed of the whole contents of a cell, with a crown of numerous cilia; resting spores formed in sporangial cells after fecundation by ciliated...
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