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(botany, mycology) An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes..
Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple.
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Antheridium means (botany, mycology) An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes..
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Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple.
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