Dicranum moss showing mature sporophytes growing up out of the haploid gametophytes
Dicranum moss showing mature sporophytes growing up out of the haploid gametophytes The gametophyte generation is the haploid green photosynthesizing leafy part of the plant The spore producing sporophyte is nutirionally dependent on the gametophyte
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