The structure in certain plants that produces gametes for the sexual phase of the alternation of generations.
The generation that bears the sexual organs in seed plants, pteridophytes and mosses.
The stage of a plant that forms the sexual organs in seed plants, ferns, lycopods and mosses; in seed plants, this stage is dependent on and enclosed by the sporophyte; in ferns and lycopods, the two stages live independently from each other; and in mosses, the sporophyte is dependent on the gametophyte.
That phase of the plant life cycle that bears the gametes. Cells have n chromosomes.
In plants, the sexual (gamete-producing) generation that alternates with the asexual (spore-producing) generation.