Sporangium Exposure and Spore Release in the Peruvian Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum peruvianum, Pteridaceae)
Fig 8
Scattering pattern of spores, sporangia and sporangium fragments.
(A) Dissemination pattern of a single false indusium. The arrows indicate sporangial fragments or spore clumps. (B) Left images: Spore clumps observed during the experiments. Right images: Sporangial fragments with spores. (C) During recordings for kinematic analyses we often witnessed the detachment of whole sporangia from the respective false indusium (S13 Video).