Friday, December 14, 2012

Fungal Word Friday: Obclavate

Obclavate means shaped like a reversed club. Where the distal part is smaller. In mycology this is often in reference to conidia shape.
Obclavate Conidia of Alternaria sp.

Photo Credit: Ninjatacoshell (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

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