Thallospore - LIAS Glossary

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thallospore (noun, pl. thallospores) – any somatic (= asexual, vegetative) spore which is not formed from a conidiophore or conidiogenous cell; (1) in non-lichenized fungi usually applied to (single-celled) mitosporic cells like arthrospores, blastospores, chlamydospores or aleuriospores; (1) in lichens applied to granular propagules composed of one to several pigmented, thick walled fungal cells, borne on the underside or edge of crustose to umbilicate thalli, i. e., a "thalloconidium". This is: part of thallus surface. Kind of: upper surface structure.

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Referenced by: Thalloconidium, Upper Surface Structure

Resources: Flora Australia Fungi