trichogyne

plural trichogynes

1. biologyThe slender, hair-like cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in female red algae, lichens and fungi.

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   Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple.

   2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54