That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oöphore.

A spore-producing or supporting structure.[1] Fin. Swe.

is the stalk of a fungus bearing spores.

a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte

A fruit body of large fungi ; a spore-bearing structure. ( BCFT).

a structure that bears the spore producing structures and spores in fleshy and woody fungi.

A spore–producing or spore–supporting structure.

A spore-producing or spore-bearing structure such as a conidiophore, ascocarp, or basidiocarp. ( 15)

specialised hypha holding a spore forming cell or body