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Rhizoid vs Seta - What's the difference?

rhizoid | seta |

In botany terms the difference between rhizoid and seta

is that rhizoid is a rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients while seta is the stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.

rhizoid

English

(wikipedia rhizoid)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.

    • References

    * [http://www.yourdictionary.com/rhizoid]

    seta

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A bristle or hair
  • (botany) The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
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    • The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea -type androecial branches

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