seta

Definitions

1. A bristle or hair.
2. The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.

Equivalents

Examples

“The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent⟳ an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.”

“The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]”

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