Claytonia

This illustration shows cluster cups in a section of a leaf of spring beauty. At right one of the cups is ruptured, exposing the aeciospores. Below a small cup, pycnium, is discharging pycniospores that are possibly fuunctionless male gametes.

Keywords

Claytonia, Pycnium, Pycniospores

Galleries

Cellular Botany

Source

Carlton C. Curtis, Nature and Development of Plants (New York: Henry Holt Company) 252

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