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)
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
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 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
Every sterigma at first produces at its point a little round protuberance, which, with a strong narrow basis, rests upon the sterigma.
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)
The basidia are nearly round with four rather stout, elongated sterigmata, spores very nearly round.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
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)
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 Atkinson, George Francis
Organs resembling persistent decurrent footstalks, upon which leaves of spruces, etc., stand; sterigmata.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low
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