microconidium

mi·cro·co·nid·i·um

, pl.

mi·cro·co·nid·i·a

(mī'krō-kō-nid'ē-ŭm, -ă), In fungi, the smaller of two distinctively different-sized types of conidia in a single species, usually single-celled and spherical, ovoid, pyriform, or clavate.