septate
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In most cases simple threads at length become septate, and are ultimately differentiated into spores, which separate at the joints when fully mature.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Forms with septate thallus, and reproduction by chlamydospores which on germination produce sporidia; sexuality doubtful.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Basidiospores continuous or rarely septate, globose, obovoid, ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth or roughened, hyaline or colored, borne singly at the apex of sterigmata.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
In Coleosporium there are two kinds of spores, one kind consisting of pulverulent single cells, and the other of elongated septate cells, which break up into obovate joints.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Pucciniæi.—This group differs from the foregoing chiefly in having septate spores.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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