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Sporangia (Clustered in sori)

Sori are clumps of sporangia that hold the reproductive spores. They are found on the underside of fern fronds. 

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Dr Leon Perrie

The sporangia is the structure which produces spores. In ferns, the sporangia are usually aggregated into particular bigger structures. If you turn over a fern frond and you might see lines, and those are aggregations of the sporangia.

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Published: 24 September 2010Updated: 5 April 2018
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