Sorus

The underside of a fertile frond of Dicksonia antarctica. Each circular brown structure is an individual sorus.

A sorus (pl.: sori) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores) in ferns and fungi. A coenosorus (pl.: coenosori) is a compound sorus composed of multiple, fused sori.


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