Meanings
adjectivemacronematous (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving larger than normal conidiogenous cells
Conidiophores on trichomes, micronematous, formed along the hyphae, sometimes macronematous terminally at the apex of trichomes, mononematous, cylindrical, 5–62.5 × 5.0–7.5 μm, 0–5 septate, occasionally branched, brown, smooth.
2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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