Planteome: Term Details for "archegonium" (PO:0025126)

Accession: PO:0025126
Name: archegonium
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: archegonia (exact, plural), arquegonio (Spanish, exact), 造卵器 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A multicellular plant gametangium (PO:0025124) that develops from an archegonium initial cell (PO:0025510) and has as parts a venter (PO:0030038) and an archegonium neck (PO:0030039). Source: POC:curators, ISBN:0521794331
Comment: At maturity, the archegonium produces an archegonium egg cell (PO:0025122). In mosses, the archegonium also has part an archegonium stalk (PO:0030036). The archegonium (PO:0025126) occurs in bryophytes and pteridophytes, but never in angiosperms, where the female gamete (plant egg cell; PO:0020094) is produced by the embryo sac (PO:0025074), a specialized (reduced) gametangium.
Subset: Gymnosperms; Pteridophytes; Bryophytes
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subject	relation	object
archegonium	is_a	multicellular plant gametangium (PO:0025124)
archegonium	RO:0002202	archegonium initial cell (PO:0025510)

subject	relation	object
venter (PO:0030038)	BFO:0000050	archegonium
spore capsule calyptra (PO:0030037)	RO:0002202	archegonium
archegonium neck (PO:0030039)	BFO:0000050	archegonium
archegonium megagametophyte (PO:0025282)	BFO:0000051	archegonium
archegonium head (PO:0030076)	BFO:0000051	archegonium
archegonium stalk (PO:0030036)	BFO:0000050	archegonium