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Calyptra vs Indusia - What's the difference?

calyptra | indusia |

As nouns the difference between calyptra and indusia

is that calyptra is in bryophytes, a thin, hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens while indusia is plural of indusium.

calyptra

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (botany) In bryophytes, a thin, hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928
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    • (b ) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra , which is ± stipitate at the base.
  • (botany) any cap-like covering of a flower or fruit, such as the operculum'' over the unopened buds of ''Eucalyptus flowersJackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928
  • (botany) Any of various coverings at the tips of structures, in the terminology of various authors; for example rootcaps and the apical cells of trichomes.Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928
  • (entomology) In flies such as the housefly, Musca , in the taxonomic order]] Diptera, [[section, zoological section Schizophora, subsection Calyptrata, the calyptra is a membranous rearward extension of the forewing; it covers the haltere.C. R, Osten Sacken. Notice on the terms: Tegula, antitegula, squama and alula, as used in Dipterology [https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_50657_noticeonthetermstegulaantitegu1881]

    • indusia

    English

    Noun

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