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Giant Salvinia - Salvinia molesta

Each sporocarp sac holds many smaller sacs, known as sporangial sacs, which would harbor the fern’s spores.  However, in S. molesta the sporangial sacs are usually empty of spores or contain only a few deformed remnants due to irregularities during meiosis.   

 

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