spherocyst

plural spherocysts

1. alternativeAlternative form of sphaerocyst.

   Singer divided the Micacei into Domestiei Sing., with filaments between spherocysts, and Exannulati Lange, where this is not the case.

   1978, Persoonia, volume 10, page 421

   2 more examples

   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[…].

   1983, Rolf Singer, Izonete Araujo, M. H. Ivory, The Ectotrophically Mycorrhizal Fungi of the Neotropical Lowlands, Especially Central Amazonia, page 208

   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.

   2005, S. R. Mishra, Morphology of Fungi, page 47