Paraphyses are erect sterile filament-like support structures occurring among the reproductive apparatuses of fungi, ferns, bryophytes and some thallophytes...

cells develop into sterile cells called cystidia (basidiomycetes) or paraphyses (ascomycetes). Cystidia are often important for microscopic identification...

stinkhorns. Interspersed among the asci are threadlike sterile cells called paraphyses. Similar structures called cystidia often occur within the hymenium of...

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...

height, and exhibits a positive reaction to iodine staining (I+ blue). The paraphyses are simple or sparsely branched in their upper portions, 1.5 to 2 micrometers...

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)...

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...

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...

including functionless stipules and carpels, leaf reduction of Equisetum, paraphyses of Fungi. Well known examples are the reductions in floral display, leading...

Toninia, such as Psora-type asci, a non-amyloid hymenial gelatin, and paraphyses that were more tightly bound together, topped with a distinctly pigmented...

bodies barely exceeding 1–2 cm and has polymorphic, often moniliform paraphyses and predominantly 3-septate spores. Geoglossum dunense was described as...

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...

differences in microscopic characteristics, such as spores, asci, and paraphyses. First described in 1796 as a species of Geoglossum, the fungus has gone...

(spore-bearing cells) are 300–360 by 16–20 μm with walls up to 1.5 μm thick. Paraphyses measure 90–184 by 10–18.5 μm (6–9 μm thick if immature); they are hyaline...

portion of hymenium showing the longitudinally interwoven hyphal ends or paraphyses and some probasidia; b, three spore-bearing organs; s, spores. × 640"...

both antheridia and archegonia, either together or on separate branches. Paraphyses – sterile hairs surrounding the archegonia and antheridia. Perianth –...

dehiscence (fruit body opening) is caused by the pressure exerted by swollen paraphyses—sterile (i.e., nonreproductive) cells that are interspersed between the...

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...

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...

form hood-like structures over the tips of the paraphyses. The hymenium stands 90–120 μm tall. The paraphyses can either be simple or show some branching...

color and septation of the ascospores, and shape and ornamentation of the paraphyses. Geoglossum was described by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1794, who created...

5 µm at the capitate (club-like) terminal cells. Some paraphyses transform into oil paraphyses, usually containing one or two oil cells. The spores are...

conglutinated. Stuck or glued together; usually applied to hyphae or paraphyses. consoredium An aggregation or cluster of incompletely separated soredia...

ascospores and paraphyses. Paraphyses are sterile cells' often with swollen tips and are at high turgor pressure. Tips of the paraphyses are very tightly...

structures) typically contain 6–8 spores, measuring 70–100 by 17–25 μm, with paraphyses (filamentous structures in the hymenium) that are 1.5–2 μm wide and have...

greenish-brown to dark brown and measures 14–28 μm in thickness. The paraphyses, which are filamentous structures within the ascomata, are simple, long...

part of which at least is stained greenish by the mycelium. The abundant paraphyses, which may be entwined, are 55–95 by 1.5–2 μm, filiform, and septate with...

spore-bearing layer) does not contain interspersed particles, and the paraphyses (sterile filaments within the hymenium) are unbranched. The ascospores...

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...

endoxylic thallus, with star-shaped to lirelloid apothecia, capitate paraphyses with a distinct pigment zone at the top of the apical cell, and lacks...