A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.

a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria

asexual spore ( conidium) formed by the conversion of a pre-existing hypha. Usually the walls thicken and the cell(s) separates before swelling of each spore. Sometimes further septa form in each cell prior to disarticulation. A specialised thallic conidium.

one of the small conidia occurring arranged in chains in certain fungi. Called also oidium.

one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi

See arthroconidium.