calyptra
Americannoun
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Also called cap. a hood or hoodlike part, as the lid of the capsule in mosses.
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a root cap.
noun
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a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
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any hoodlike structure, such as a root cap
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In some bryophyte plants, a structure that covers the young sporophyte as it develops within the tissues of its gametophyte parent. The calyptra, which consists of a thickening of the archegonium walls, eventually breaks open as the spore capsule grows.
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See root cap
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Etymology
Origin of calyptra
1745–55; < New Latin < Greek kalýptra veil, covering, equivalent to kalýp ( tein ) to veil, cover + -tra noun suffix
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The calyptra buds to form a mature gametophyte.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
I, ripe capsules of hairy-cap moss: i, with; ii, without calyptra.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
Capsules short-pedicelled, or sessile on the thallus, or immersed in its substance, free or connate with the calyptra, globose, at length rupturing irregularly.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Thallus decumbent, irregularly lobed, 1–2´ long, 3–5´´ wide; involucre none; pedicel ¾–1´ long, sometimes folded upon itself and remaining within the calyptra, the capsule thus appearing sessile; antheridia on elongated receptacles.—Wooded swamps.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
C, sporogonium with calyptra removed. op. lid, × 4.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
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