Sporidium

sporidium

[spə′rid·ē·əm]

(mycology)

A small spore, especially one formed on a promycelium.

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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sporidium

 

an obsolete term designating a basidiospore of rust and smut fungi. The term was used before the morphological nature of the spores was fully understood.

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