antheridium

English

Etymology

From anther +‎ -idium

Noun

antheridium (plural antheridia)

1. (botany, mycology) An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes.
   • 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54:

     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.

Derived terms

• antheridial

Translations

bryophyte organ producing male gametes

• Catalan: anteridi (ca) m
• Finnish: siittiöpesäke, anteridio (fi)
• French: anthéridie (fr) f
• Irish: antairidiam m
• Polish: plemnia f
• Portuguese: anterídio m
• Spanish: anteridio m

See also

• archegonium (the female equivalent)