Apical apparatus

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Asci with visible operculum at the tip in a species of the Ascobolaceae
Asci and ascospores without operculum of an unknown fungus

An apical apparatus is located at the apex of many of the hose fungi , which is used to release the spores . It is either formed by a lid ( operculum ) ( operculat ) or by an annular swelling body ( inoperculat ).

literature

  • Hans Otto Schwantes: Biology of the mushrooms. An introduction to applied mycology (=  university paperbacks . Volume 1871 ). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8252-1871-6 , pp. 77 .
  • H. Weber (Hrsg.): Dictionary of microbiology. Gustav Fischer, 1997, ISBN 3-437-35040-4 , p. 46.