spherocyst

English

Noun

spherocyst (plural spherocysts)

  1. Alternative form of sphaerocyst
    • 1978, Persoonia, volume 10, page 421:
      Singer divided the Micacei into Domestiei Sing., with filaments between spherocysts, and Exannulati Lange, where this is not the case.
    • 1983, Rolf Singer, Izonete Araujo, M. H. Ivory, The Ectotrophically Mycorrhizal Fungi of the Neotropical Lowlands, Especially Central Amazonia, page 208:
      Hymenophoral trama consisting of a lateral trama which contains few or no spherocysts and is subgelatinous, and a densely compacted mediostratum, the latter containing both single spherocysts or spherocyst nests consisting of […] .
    • 2005, S. R. Mishra, Morphology of Fungi, page 47:
      A characteristic feature here is the structure of the fruit-body context containing - besides long, cylindrical hyphae - groups of globular cells (spherocysts) nidulariaceously arranged in its tissue. It is the spherocysts that cause the characteristic friability, that is the pomaceous brittleness of the broken context.
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