conidioman.
/kəˌnɪdɪˈəʊmə/, U.S. /kəˌnɪdiˈoʊmə/ Mycology.
A conidia-bearing fruiting body (see quot. 1979).
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1979 B. Kendrick & T. R. Nag Raj Whole Fungus I. 51 We propose the term conidioma (plural: conidiomata) for all specialized, multi-hyphal, conidium-bearing structures.
1988 Mycologia 80 344 The fungus produces a single layer of cushion-shaped or irregular conidiogenous cells lining an ostiolate pycnidial conidioma.
1991 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 69 1865 Conidiogenous cells continued to proliferate ventrally to the scutellum, producing a ring of conidia embedded in a sticky matrix, surrounding the conidioma.
2005 Rev. Paleobot. & Palynol. 136 51/1 The hypostromata..are considered to represent the endophytical parts of stromata of which the epicuticular, spore producing fruit bodies (ascomata and/or conidiomata) are missing.
Derivatives
conidiˈomatal adj. having conidiomata; of or relating to conidiomata.
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1979 B. Kendrick & T. R. Nag Raj Whole Fungus I. 52 We believe there is a very strong probability that two other genera, Kaskaskia and Polymorphum, also have lysigenous conidiomatal cavities.
2002 Mycologia 94 494 Isolates of Phomopsis were obtained from twigs and berries of highbush blueberry... They were characterized using conidiomatal morphology, conidial dimensions, [etc.].
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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