Aecium

aecium

[′ēsh·ē·əm]

(mycology)

The fruiting body or sporocarp of rust fungi.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Aecium

 

one of the types of sporiferous structures of rust fungi. Each aecium has a peridium; the aeciospores are produced in strings within. The genus name Aecidium is applied to some rust fungi that do not exhibit other types of sporiferous structures.

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