Assertion: sporophyte | /r/HasProperty | branched
Facets:
value: in modern vascular plants
type: LOCATION
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: in pines
type: LOCATION
value: with roots
type: OTHER
value: highly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Pteridophytes differ from bryophytes in that the sporophyte is branched and generally much larger and more conspicuous, and from seed plants in that both generations are independent and free-living.
text: For example, in mosses the sporophyte consists of a foot; a green, stemlike seta ; and a single complex sporangium, while in pines it is a highly branched tree with roots, stems, leaves and thousands of sporangia.
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.