pseudoaethalium

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noun

A structure consisting of many sporangia packed together in certain myxomycete species.

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Meanings

nounpseudoaethalium (plural pseudoaethalia)

plural pseudoaethalia

  1. biologyA structure consisting of many sporangia packed together in certain myxomycete species.

    Pseudoaethalia may reach a diameter of 20 cm or more, or, in the case of elongated structures, a length of more than 10 cm.

    1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 43

Origin

From pseudo- + aethalium.

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