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English
Noun
spherocyst (plural spherocysts)
- Alternative form of sphaerocyst
1978, Persoonia, volume 10, page 421:Singer divided the Micacei into Domestiei Sing., with filaments between spherocysts, and Exannulati Lange, where this is not the case.
1983, Rolf Singer, Izonete Araujo, M. H. Ivory, The Ectotrophically Mycorrhizal Fungi of the Neotropical Lowlands, Especially Central Amazonia, page 208:Hymenophoral trama consisting of a lateral trama which contains few or no spherocysts and is subgelatinous, and a densely compacted mediostratum, the latter containing both single spherocysts or spherocyst nests consisting of […] .
2005, S. R. Mishra, Morphology of Fungi, page 47:A characteristic feature here is the structure of the fruit-body context containing - besides long, cylindrical hyphae - groups of globular cells (spherocysts) nidulariaceously arranged in its tissue. It is the spherocysts that cause the characteristic friability, that is the pomaceous brittleness of the broken context.