sporangium

noun

A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, especially in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns.

noun

In botany, a spore-case; the case or sac in cryptogamous plants in which the spores, which are the analogues of the seeds of the higher or flowering plants, are produced endogenously.

noun

Also sporange.

noun

A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

noun

A case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism.

noun

organ containing or producing spores