Short, hair-like filaments that line the canal of the ostiole in some Pyrenomycetes. Like a perithecium. A closed ascocarp with a pore at the top, a true ostiole , and a wall of its own. See circulative transmission . The viruses from these different host groups are termed bacteriophages, cyanophages and mycoplasmaphages, respectively.
Function is believed to be sensory.
Sometimes called precaudal glands. The observable characteristics of an organism, either in total or with respect to one or more particular named characteristics. Food-conducting tissue, consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, phloem parenchyma, and fibers. A basidium that is divided into more than one cell by transverse or longitudinal septa. A spore having two to many transverse septa.