Bot. [dim. of SPORANGIUM.] A small sporangium.
Also in anglicized form sporangiole (Mayne, 1859).
1824. R. K. Greville, Flora Edin., p. xxiv. When the sporangium contains distinct bodies inclosing Sporidia, the sporangium is said to contain Sporangiola.
1875. Cooke, Fungi, 52. It is still more evident if we sow the spores of the sporangiolum.
