sporophyl vs foliage

sporophyl and foliage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sporophyl	Yes	No	No	No
foliage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, foliage is a hypernym of sporophyl; that is, foliage is a word with a broader meaning than sporophyl:

sporophyl: leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia
foliage: the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

Other hypernyms of sporophyl include leaf, leafage.

sporophyl (noun)	foliage (noun)
leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia	(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
	the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants