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phanerogam
phanerogam
English
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Fruit of Ginkgo biloba
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Cones of Pinus longaeva
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Flowers of Gentiana cruciata
Noun
phanerogam (plural phanerogams)
- (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
- 1977, Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development, page 8,
- Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
- 2003, Burkhard Frenzel, History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary, Karl Esser, Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Jin Murata (editors), Progress in Botany, Volume 65, page 591,
- The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams, 20 cryptogams. Among the phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
- 2005, Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, unnumbered page,
- Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams, and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.
- 1977, Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development, page 8,
Synonyms
- (plant that produces seeds): spermatophyte
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Translations
plant that produces seeds
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See also
- angiosperm
- gymnosperm
- Phanerogamae