The New Student's Reference Work/Homospory

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Homos′pory (in plants), a term which implies that the asexual spores produced by a plant are similar. All plants except spermatophytes (seed plants) and some pteridophytes (fern plants) are homosporous. Isospory is a synonym, and heterospory is the contrasting term, which see.