Sporodochia

The sporodochium (from ancient Greek σπορά spora , "seed", and δέχομαι dechomai , "Record") is a form of the spore bearing at various fungi (fungi). It is a fabric structure , the surface on the substrate growing the fungus, has no wall or envelope-like structures and from carrier hyphen of conidia or even from conidia producing cells. Most of these conidia carriers and conidiogenic cells are bedded on a cushion of hyphae. As conidiogenic structures, they are often included under the term conidioma , which originally only referred to pycnidia and acervuli .

literature

• Heinrich Dörfelt , Gottfried Jetschke (Ed.): Dictionary of mycology. 2nd Edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9 .