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The paraphyses, which are formed at the first commencement of the receptacle, are at first very short, but soon elongate, and become wholly developed before the appearance of the asci.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

These asci are crowded together side by side, and with them are slender empty asci called paraphyses.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The hymenium itself consists of elongated fertile cells, or asci, mixed with linear thread-like barren cells, called paraphyses, which are regarded by some authors as barren asci.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

As in the Discomycetes, the hymenium consists of asci, paraphyses, and mucilage, but the whole forms a less compact and more gelatinous mass within the perithecium.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Spores hyaline, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, often 1-guttulate, 18–20�10–11; 1-serrate; paraphyses septate, clavate.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha