a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus
a spore (commonly a winter or resting spore) of the rust fungi from which the basidium is produced.
(pl. teliospores): The sexual, thick-walled resting spore of the rust and smut fungi.
A usually thick-walled, usually resting spore, which is the site of karyogamy and produces the basidium (in the Uredinales and Ustilaginales). ( 15)
Teliospore (sometimes called teleutospore) is the thick-walled resting spore of some fungi (rusts and smuts), from which the basidium arises.