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carpospore

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

carpospore The spore produced by the carpogonium of Rhodophyta.

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