teleutospore Bot.
(tɪ-, tɛˈljuːtəspɔə(r))
[f. Gr. τελευτή completion, end (f. τέλος end) + spore.]
A special form of spore, usually produced at the end of the period of fructification, in parasitic fungi of the family Uredineæ. Hence teleutosporic (-ˈspɒrɪk) a., of or pertaining to a teleutospore. So teˈleuto-ˌform, that form or stage of the fungus which produces teleutospores.
| 1874 Cooke Fungi 202 These spores..may conveniently be called resting spores, or as De Bary calls them, teleutospores, being the last which are produced. 1882 Vines Sachs' Bot. 331. 1884 Athenæum 18 Oct. 499/3 The probability that the teleutospore of Puccinia is also analogous to an egg, the uredospore being ‘probably a pupa state’. 1891 Ibid. 23 May 671/1 The extraordinary abundance..of the teleutosporic stage as compared with the comparative scarcity of the æcidial stage. 1898 tr. Strasburger's Bot. 367 The genus Cronartium, with uredo- and teleuto-forms on Vincetoxicum and Ribes. |