phanerogam

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Fruit of Ginkgo biloba
Cones of Pinus longaeva
Flowers of Gentiana cruciata

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From Ancient Greek φανερός (phanerós, visible) + γαμέω (gaméō, to marry); compare cryptogam.

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phanerogam (plural phanerogams)

  1. (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
    • 1977, Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development, page 8:
      Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
    • 2003, Burkhard Frenzel, “History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary”, in Karl Esser, Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Jin Murata, editors, Progress in Botany, volume 65, page 591:
      The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams, 20 cryptogams. Among the phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
    • 2005, Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, unnumbered page:
      Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams, and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.

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