The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk , and is sessile on the calyptra base.
A leaf attached directly at its base without support, stalk, pedicel, or peduncle From the Latin, sedere, "to sit "
Not able to move from place to place Benthic organisms that are attached to hard surfaces or the seabed
A description of any plant part which attached directly to a shoot, rather than being attached by any type of stalk
Permanently attached; - - said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached
attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"
describes an immobile organism because of its attachment to a substrate The term has also been applied to organisms, such as anemones, that move very slowly
attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "a sessile leaf"