The ontogeny of epiphyllous microsporangia Ginkgo indicated that the microsporophyll in Ginkgo is of phyllome origin.Possibly, the epiphyllous microsporangia is a peculiar chimera.
As I carefully brush the backs of my fingers against moss beds, tiny stalk-like beings tickle me. Jutting out of moss leaves, these stalks are known as sporophytes; each sporophyte contains a capsule of spores at its outermost end.
One day, under a bright blue after-rain sky, I observed that the sporophyte capsules of a wall screw-moss bed growing on a brick fence had swelled to almost three times their usual size.