heterosporous in English
adjective
1
producing two different kinds of spores.
Both of these genera are heterosporous , meaning that each species produces two distinctly different types of spores: microspores and megaspores.
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1. As with gymnosperms, Angiosperms are heterosporous
2. All quillworts and their extinct relatives are heterosporous.
3. As heterosporous plants, the fern's antheridium produces free-swimming sperm and its Archegonium produces eggs
4. Quillworts are heterosporous , mainly aquatic perennials, with a dense rosette of tubular quill-like leaves arising from a short, stout rootstock.