Assertion: gametophyte's sporophyte | /r/HasProperty | large
Facets:
value: in modern vascular plants
type: LOCATION
value: typically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In modern vascular plants, the sporophyte is typically large, branched, nutritionally independent and long-lived, but there is increasing evidence that Paleozoic gametophytes were just as complex as the sporophytes.
text: b) The sporophytes of lycophytes are small but nutritionally independent of their gametophytes, while the sporophytes of liverworts are large and do not depend on the gametophyte for nutrition.
text: The sporophytes of both horsetails and ferns are large but depend on the gametophyte for nutrition during periods of low light.