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Sterigma

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sterigma [stə′rig·mə]
(botany)
A peg-shaped structure to which needles are attached in certain conifers.
(mycology)
A slender stalk arising from the basidium of some fungi, from the top of which basidiospores are formed by abstriction.
Sterigma 

in basidiomycetous fungi, one of the stalks of the sporebearing organ, or basidium. Basidiospores develop on the sterigmata.
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minima, have a more or less square and largely membranous sterigma.
Variation of Copaeodes minima and the status of Copaeodes rayata ... by Austin, George T.; Warren, Andrew D.; Mielke, Olaf H.H. / Florida Entomologist
Sterigma in lateral view with curved caudal edge extended to prominent point caudad from dorsal edge, cephalad edge bulbous, papillae anales robust, more-or-less quadrate but being somewhat broader ventrally, caudal edge straight.
A new Parelbella from Mexico (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrrhopygini) by Mielke, Olaf H.H.; Austin, George T.; Warren, Andrew D. / Florida Entomologist
 
 
 
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