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    Paraphyses are erect sterile filament-like support structures occurring among the reproductive apparatuses of fungi, ferns, bryophytes and some thallophytes...
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  • cells develop into sterile cells called cystidia (basidiomycetes) or paraphyses (ascomycetes). Cystidia are often important for microscopic identification...
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    stinkhorns. Interspersed among the asci are threadlike sterile cells called paraphyses. Similar structures called cystidia often occur within the hymenium of...
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    bodies barely exceeding 1–2 cm and has polymorphic, often moniliform paraphyses and predominantly 3-septate spores. Geoglossum dunense was described as...
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    space, with both ends attached to the gills, help together by clasping paraphyses. As the gill expands the cystidium breaks away from one gill and projects...
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    the shape of the spores (those of T. cupularis being narrower) and the paraphyses (those of T. cupularis lacking the distinctive lobed tips of T. catinus)...
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    appearance and resembles a membrane, it is sessile, it does not have paraphyses, its asci are oblong, and its sporidia are biseriate and have an oblong-elliptical...
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    are eight-spored, 223–300 by 19–20 μm, cylindrical, and hyaline. The paraphyses are filamentous, cylindrical, 5.8–8.8 μm wide, and hyaline. The hyphae...
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    often contain two small oil droplets, and measure 11–15 by 6–10 μm. The paraphyses are slender, contain septa, and are slightly enlarged above. The species...
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    including functionless stipules and carpels, leaf reduction of Equisetum, paraphyses of Fungi. Well known examples are the reductions in floral display, leading...
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    distinctive feature of Teloschistaceae is the presence of the gelatinous paraphyses (filament-like support structures in the reproductive apparatus), with...
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  • both antheridia and archegonia, either together or on separate branches. Paraphyses – sterile hairs surrounding the archegonia and antheridia. Perianth –...
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    conglutinated. Stuck or glued together; usually applied to hyphae or paraphyses. consoredium An aggregation or cluster of incompletely separated soredia...
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    color and septation of the ascospores, and shape and ornamentation of the paraphyses. Geoglossum was described by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1794, who created...
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    differences in microscopic characteristics, such as spores, asci, and paraphyses. First described in 1796 as a species of Geoglossum, the fungus has gone...
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    by the shape of the spores (those of T. catinus being broader) and the paraphyses (those of T. catinus having distinctive lobed tips). The species is inedible...
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    portion of hymenium showing the longitudinally interwoven hyphal ends or paraphyses and some probasidia; b, three spore-bearing organs; s, spores. × 640"...
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    Boudier believed that the large, curved ascospores and the rare and short paraphyses were sufficiently distinct to warrant a new genus to contain the single...
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    dehiscence (fruit body opening) is caused by the pressure exerted by swollen paraphyses—sterile (i.e., nonreproductive) cells that are interspersed between the...
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    over time. The disc varies in colour from orange to orange-brown. The paraphyses (sterile fungal filaments) are slender and range from straight to flexuose...
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    ascospores and paraphyses. Paraphyses are sterile cells' often with swollen tips and are at high turgor pressure. Tips of the paraphyses are very tightly...
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  • variable in thickness, yellow to yellowish-brown, containing crystals. The paraphyses are usually 1.0–1.5 μm in diameter, with some branching at the top. The...
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  • colourless, and the subhymenium beneath it is pale brown, 20–35 μm thick. Paraphyses are 1.5–2.0 μm wide, sparsely branched, with dark brown capped tips. The...
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    Caloplaca austrocitrina has a thickness of 60 to 80 μm. The tips of the paraphyses are widened, measuring between 3.0 and 6.0 μm. The ascospores of the species...
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    gall-like or blister-like tissues of the hosts. The asci form a layer lacking paraphyses, and they lack croziers. The ascospores frequently bud into multiple yeast...
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  • spore-producing asci, is clear, with simple to moderately branched paraphyses. These paraphyses end in a brown cap and contain a distinctive aeruginose pigment...
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  • rod-shaped), with brown central cells and hyaline (translucent) polar cells. Paraphyses of Savoryella are inconspicuous at maturity. The apical pore or apparatus...
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  • plurivora, but can be distinguished by its conidial dimensions. Also, the paraphyses of the former are up to 95μm long and 4μm wide, whereas those of L. plurivora...
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  • hymenium has a height of 150–200 μm and is inspersed with apically branched paraphyses. The ascospores are 80–100 by 17–22 μm in size, oblong, colourless, and...
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  • endoxylic thallus, with star-shaped to lirelloid apothecia, capitate paraphyses with a distinct pigment zone at the top of the apical cell, and lacks...
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