peridium in English
Numerous golden sporangia with persistent peridia still intact formed on the bark surface and on mosses.
Use "peridium" in a sentence
1. The periphyses differentiate into the neck peridium and probably also grip asci prior to ascospore discharge.
2. In addition to host specificity, characters found useful in species delineation were urediniospore and aeciospore size and shape, and ornamentation of spores and the aecial peridium.
3. The surface markings of the spores from the aecial, uredinial, and telial stages of Uromyces trifolii-repentis Liro on leaves and petioles of small white clover (Trifolium repens L.) were examined using scanning and transmission electron microscopes. The short, cylindrical aecium was borne within a peridium which was one cell layer thick.