gloeovessel
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of gloeocystidium + vessel.
Noun
[edit]gloeovessel (plural gloeovessels)
- (mycology) A vessel-shaped attachment to a gleocystidium that projects into the trama.
- 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 327:
- The hymenium is a more-or-less thickening euhymenium or a catahymenium, often with associated sterile hyphidia, cystidia, gloeocystidia, setae or gloeovessels.