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What is a seta?

What is a seta? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A bristle or hair
  2. (botany) The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
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The seta widens out at the base of the capsule into a region known as the apophysis.
If this is the case, setal morphology would have a greater effect on force of adhesion than surface chemistry of the seta or substrate.
The latter was defeated at seta in Ise, and killed in the midst of a rice-field by a stray arrow.
The sporangium differentiates after the seta elongates and is protected from injury and drying by the calyptra.
In most liverworts, the sporangium matures before the seta elongates, pushing the sporangium above the calyptra that protected it.
A sensory cell with or without cilium is associated with each cuticular spine, seta, and gland cell of the trunk.

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