quellkörper

noun

An apical layer of gelatinous cells found on the ascostromata of fungi in the order Coronophorales.

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noun
  1. biologyAn apical layer of gelatinous cells found on the ascostromata of fungi in the order Coronophorales.

    The Coronophorales are characterized by forming ascostromata that are devoid of a true ostiole but provided with an apical layer of gelatinous cells, called a quellkörper.

    [1983, A. Tsuneda, Fungal Morphology and Ecology: Mostly Scanning Electron Microscopy
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