sterigma
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Origin of sterigma
1865–70; < New Latin < Greek stḗrigma a support, equivalent to stērig-, base of stērízein to support + -ma noun suffix
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Two or more gonidia may be supported upon each sterigma.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
D, Passage of a nucleus through the sterigma into the basidiospore.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
These are filled with protoplasm, swell more and more, and, after some time, separate themselves by a partition from the sterigma into independent cells, spores, or conidia.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The hymenium is universal; the basidia round and two-lobed, each lobe bearing a single one-spored sterigma.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The young basidium contains two nuclei, which later fuse; the fusion-nucleus then undergoes two successive divisions, involving a reduction of chromosomes, and each of the four resultant nuclei passes through a sterigma into a basidiospore.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
Autobasidiomycetes.—In this by far the larger division of the Basidiomycetes the basidia are undivided and the four basidiospores are borne on short sterigmata nearly always at the apex of the basidium.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The basidia are like those of the genus, globose, sunk in the substance of the plant, and terminate with four long, slender, sterigmata which rise to the surface and bear the spores.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
The spores, therefore, are articulated in rows, one after the other, from the ends of the sterigmata.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
All sterigmata spring up at the same time, and keep pace with one another in the formation of the spores.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The rayed divergent protuberances are the direct producers and bearers of the propagating cells, spores, or conidia, and are called sterigmata.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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