pycnidium

Noun

Meaning

In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

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The diverse conidia and conidiophores sometimes develop in asexual sporocarps with different characteristics (e.g. aecervulus, pycnidium, sporodochium). Source: Internet

The pycnidium is a globose to flask-shaped parenchymatous structure, lined on its inner wall with conidiophores. Source: Internet

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