sporocarp

A multicellular structure in which spores or spore-producing structures are formed, as in many fungi and slime molds.

A similar structure in certain ferns, such as the water clovers.

In botany, a pluricellular body developed as the product of a sexual act, serving essentially for the formation of spores, and ceasing to exist after having once, with comparative rapidity, formed a number of spores.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

A sporangium.

The structure on a fungus which houses the spore-producing organs.

specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia