germinating spore

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• te|li|o|spore — «TEE LEH uh spr, spohr; TEHL ee », noun. Botany. a thick walled spore produced by certain rust fungi generally in autumn, remaining in the tissues of the host during winter and germinating in the spring to produce basidia …   Useful english dictionary

• bryophyte — bryophytic /bruy euh fit ik/, adj. /bruy euh fuyt /, n. Bot. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts. [1875 80; < NL Bryophyta name of the group; see BRYO , PHYTE] * * * Any of the green,… …   Universalium

• lower vascular plant — ▪ biology Introduction formerly  pteridophyte,  also called  vascular cryptogam,         any of the spore bearing vascular plants, including the ferns, club mosses, spike mosses, quillworts, horsetails, and whisk ferns. Once considered of the… …   Universalium

• liverwort — /liv euhr werrt , wawrt /, n. any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks. [bef. 1100; ME; late OE liferwyrt. See LIVER1, WORT2] …   Universalium

• luminous moss — ▪ plant species also called  Elfin gold        (Schistostega pennata; formerly S. osmundacea), light reflecting plant of the subclass Bryidae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. It forms green mats in caves, holes in wood or earth, or cavities… …   Universalium

• Appresorium — Appresoria, the plural of appresorium, are the tips of infectious hyphae, often from a germinating spore, that make contact with their host cell wall and that flatten out into disc, fan or lobed shapes tightly affixed or appressed on the host… …   Wikipedia

• Germination — is the process whereby growth emerges from a period of dormancy. The most common example of germination is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm. However, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, for example the… …   Wikipedia

• Evolutionary history of plants — Plants have evolved through increasing levels of complexity, from the earliest algal mats, through bryophytes, lycopods, ferns and gymnosperms to the complex angiosperms of today. While the simple plants continue to thrive, especially in the… …   Wikipedia

• reproductive system, plant — Introduction       any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative …   Universalium

• Sporogenesis — is the production of spores in biology. The term is also used to refer to the process of reproduction via spores. Reproductive spores are formed in many eukaryotic organisms, such as plants, algae and fungi, during their normal reproductive life… …   Wikipedia

• fungus — fungic /fun jik/, adj. funguslike, adj. /fung geuhs/, n., pl. fungi /fun juy, fung guy/, funguses, adj. n. 1. any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic… …   Universalium