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In most liverworts, the sporangium matures before the seta elongates, pushing the sporangium above the calyptra that protected it.
The sporangium differentiates after the seta elongates and is protected from injury and drying by the calyptra.
The capsule is often covered by a calyptra, which is the enlarged remains of the archegonium.
The capsules of plants of the genus Encalypta are totally covered by some tissue, the calyptra.
The capsule and operculum are in turn sheathed by a haploid calyptra which is the remains of the archegonial venter.
The nodosity apical end retains the meristematic cell profiles and calyptra but does not show major histological cell modifications, which are mainly hypertrophic due to phylloxera feeding.
The crisped leaves, with the different nature of the peristome and mitriform calyptra, multifid at the base, are, however, certain marks of distinction.
Examples from Classical Literature
The young sporogonium is protected by a thick calyptra derived from the tissue of the thallus around the archegonium.
Capsule filling the involucre, circumscissile in the middle, the calyptra persistent at its base.
If not preserved in an envelope the calyptra and operculum are very apt to fall off and become lost.
The calyptra is half-cleft, and expanded as if blown out below.
The sporogonium when nearly mature bursts the calyptra irregularly.
Calyptriform, shaped like a calyptra or candle-extinguisher.
The calyptra is half-cleft, and the lid conical and shortly beaked.
The calyptra or veil is remarkably small, smooth, and membranous.
Calyptra minute, lacerate, persistent at the base of the capsule.
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