sterigma
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sterigmata
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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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Each projection or sterigma soon swells at its extremity into a bladder-like body, the young spore, and, as they enlarge, the protoplasm of the basidium is passed into them.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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
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
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 J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
These, when ripe, are cast off from the sterigmata.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
Organs resembling persistent decurrent footstalks, upon which leaves of spruces, etc., stand; sterigmata.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
Typically, e.g. in the Toad-stools, it is a club-shaped structure, produced at its free end into four slender processes, the sterigmata, each of which bears a basidiospore at its tip.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
These basides are swollen, club-shaped cells, surmounted by four minute tubes or spore-bearers, called sterigmata, each of which carries a spore.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
This view seems to be supported by the fact that, in the section Pluteus and some others, the cystidia are surmounted by short horns resembling sterigmata.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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