plasmodiocarp

[ plaz-moh-dee-uh-kahrp ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Mycology.

First recorded in 1875–80; plasmodi(um) + -o- + -carp

The fructification appears to be isolated in each case; the entire plasmodium consumed in a single plasmodiocarp.

Distinguished from Perichna by the terete plasmodiocarp and by the more spinulose capillitium.

Sporangia always sessile, simple and regular or plasmodiocarp, sometimes united into an thalium.

Plasmodiocarp an irregular patch, one to several centimeters in extent, the strands of the net about .5 mm.

A single reticulate plasmodium is usually converted without change of form into an individual plasmodiocarp.

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