The peridium is the protective layer that encloses a mass of spores in fungi. This outer covering is a distinctive feature of gasteroid fungi. Depending...

pseudostipe. The peridium is tough and up to 1.5 mm thick. The surface is dry and can have tiny scales or be smooth. With age, the peridium becomes finely...

(Meyl.) Y. Yamam, 1998. A 2013 study found slight differences in how the peridium dehisces to release spores between each of these synonyms, but still concluded...

Coleosporiaceae Genus: Chrysomyxa Species: C. arctostaphyli Binomial name Chrysomyxa arctostaphyli Dietel Synonyms Peridium coloradense (Dietel) Arth. & F. Kern...

citrinum has no stem but is attached to the soil by mycelial cords. The peridium, or outer wall, is thick and firm, usually ochre yellow externally with...

body with no special opening to the outside. The ascomatal wall is called peridium and typically consists of densely interwoven hyphae or pseudoparenchyma...

meaning earth and aster meaning star, refers to the behavior of the outer peridium. At maturity, the outer layer of the fruiting body splits into segments...

by 6–12 cm (2+1⁄2–4+1⁄2 in) high. It has a two-layered peridium. The outer layer of the peridium (the exoperidium) is thick and leathery (except where...

roughly spherical peridium (spore sac). Atop the peridium is an irregular stoma (opening) that is red on the inside. Inside the peridium is a white gleba...

structure that may be completely or partially buried underground. The peridium, the outer layer of the egg, is white, or purple/red, with two or three...

name comes from the Greek sclera meaning hard and derma meaning skin. The peridium (outer wall), which may be smooth or warted, is very thick and tough. At...

the slits may appear higher up on the peridium, in others, the peridium rips more irregularly. The peridium may also rip in such a way that it appears...

as new to science in 2013. It has a peridium measuring 6–9 mm tall with a mouth diameter of 5–7 mm. The peridium contains up to 40 small "eggs" (peridioles)...

Initially smooth, the skin (peridium) develops wrinkles and folds as it matures, cracking and flaking with age. The peridium eventually sloughs away, exposing...

olivacea, from pine forests of eastern Ukraine. Internal surface of the peridium of the slime mold Tubifera dudkae with spores. Fungi portal Aeroplankton...

bodies of gasteroid fungi resembles a universal veil, but is called a peridium. Allaby, Michael, ed. (2006). "universal veil". A Dictionary of Plant Sciences...

external peridium thin, smooth, whitish, the upper part cracking into small angular persistent spot-like scales or areas, the inner peridium thick, sub...

an egg-shaped to roughly spherical subterranean structure encased in a peridium. The "egg" ranges in color from whitish to buff to reddish-brown, measures...

rust fungi such as Phragmidium, aecia lack an outer wall structure (a peridium) but instead produce a diffuse aecium called a caeoma. In some species...

mushroom that is a remnant of the universal veil, or the remains of the peridium that encloses the immature fruit bodies of gasteroid fungi. This macrofeature...

gasteroid fungus species in the family Russulaceae with a cinnabar-red peridium. It is the type species of Zelleromyces, and like other members of its...

morphological characters of Rhizopogon sporocarps are a simplex or duplex peridium surrounding a loculate gleba that lacks a columnella. Basidiospores are...

Nidularia in 1961 based on differences in the microscopic structure of the peridium. The name Nidularia first appeared in the scientific literature in 1790...

characterized by black or dark-brown spores, as well as an iridescent peridium, which occurs in younger species and does not always persist into maturity...

by differences in fruit body size, spore size, spore ornamentation, and peridium structure. The fungus was discovered in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in...

fruit body up to 6 cm (2.4 in) in diameter with a thick, rooting base. The peridium is up to 2 mm thick and has a dry, roughened surface colored tan to yellow...

Chaetomium genus, first isolated from Iran. It shares features such as peridium structure, ascospore morphology and germ pore position with its cogenerates...

(Burgundy truffle) of short-term precipitation deficits in summer because its peridium is not as well developed, thus subjecting the ascocarp to more water transpiration...

pedunculated sporangia, a calyculus may be present or absent. The delicate peridium is reduced to a structure of vertical, thickened threads that are interconnected...

surface prior to opening as the internal structures expand and stretch the peridium taut. The fruit body, or receptacle, bursts the egg open as it expands...