Assertion: sporophyte | /r/CapableOf | grow in early stages of growth
Facets:
value: out of the prothallus
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the early stages of growth, the sporophyte grows out of the prothallus, depending on it for water supply and nutrition, but develops into a new independent fern, which will produce new spores that will grow into new prothallia etc., thus completing the life cycle of the organism.