polysperm

polysperm

A tree bearing a many–seeded fruit; any gymnosperm female fructification consisting of aggregation of seeds, to avoid the conventional terms megastrobilus, megasporophyll, etc., implying unnecessary homologies with pteridophytic female fructifications.

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