unispore

plural unispores

1. biologyAn algal spore that develops within a unilocular sporangium.

   The plurispores and unispores produced by the erect thalli at 10 degrees C under SD conditions once again developed into new prostrate thalli.

   2012, Q. Ashton Acton, PhD, Issues in Life Sciences: Botany and Plant Biology Research: 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions Press, page 631

   2 more examples

   Fletcher (1978) demonstrated that in Britain unispores from Ralfsia clavata developed into germlings that eventually produced blades identifiable as Petalonia fascia and that unispores from Microspongium gelatinosum ultimately produced narrow, terete thalli identifiable as Scytosiphon lomentaria.

   1984, Christopher S. Lobban, Michael James Wynne, The Biology of Seaweeds, University of California Press, page 71

   Culture studies of Newfoundland Acrothrix revealed an asexual, heteromorphic, monophasic life history which includes a unispore-producing macrothallus and a recycling, plurispore-producing microthallus.

   1985, Susan G. Forward with G. Robin South, “Observations on the taxonomy and life history of North Atlantic Acrothrix Kylin (Phaeophyceae, Chordariales)”, in Phycologia, volume 24, numbers 3–4, page 347