Development of ovule or magasporangium:Ovule functionally represents a magasporangium since meiosis and megaspore formation occurs within it.

It consists of a stalk or funiculus which bears the nucellus surrounded by one or two integuments. The ovule develops from placenta of the ovary. The ovule primordium arises by periclinal divisions of a layer of hypodermal cells which rapidly differentiates into a conical structure with rounded tip. This tip is the forerunner of nucellus.The growth of nucellus is unequal resulting in various degrees of curvature of the main body of the ovule. During the enlargement of nucellus integuments arise as rim like outgrowths from the basal cells of the nucellus which surrounds nucellus completely except at tip of the ovule where the inner integument contains a tubular opening, the micropyle.