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REPORTS of multiple eggs within a single embryo sac are few. Strasburger1 reported their occurrence in Santalum album L. and Sinningia Lindleyi Schauer. Gerassimova2 reported multiple eggs in the embryo sacs of Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr.
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DEVINE, T., STARLING, J. Megagametophyte containing Twin Ova. Nature 228, 880 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228880a0
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