The generation developing from a zygote and producing spores through meiosis. In the usual land-plant cycle it is diploid. Its nutritional independence and stature differ markedly between bryophytes and vascular plants.
A structure in which spores are produced. One unbranched bryophyte sporophyte bears a single sporangium; branching sporophytes can distribute several sporangia on one body.
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