root-like, branched hyphae

Gk. rhiza, root] Rootlike anchoring structure in fungi and nonvascular plants.

Rootlike structure that helps anchor mosses, liverworts, and fern prothalli to the ground or other surface. Some are able to absorb moisture and dissolved minerals. [GT

any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc

a hairlike filament used to secure the plant to its substrate and it absorbs water and nutrients, operating like roots but of considerably simpler construction

hair-like filamentous anchorage/absorbing organ

Rootlike extensions usually used to attach a thallus to the substrate

Zooid, usually weakly calcified, modified as a rootlet, for stabilising a colony to the substrate, or for reinforcing a branch, or for connecting across bracnhes of a colony.

A hair-like structure that functions as a root in lower organisms, such as certain fungi and mosses. Rhizoids are important in penetrating a substance, giving anchorage and absorbing nutrients.

A unicellular or multicellular absorptive and anchoring filament, lacking vascular tissue, found in the gametophytes of mosses, liverworts, and ferns, for example.

Intercellular thallus branch that absorbs food and provides anchorage.

A simple, root-like structure.

A fine filamentous structure which grows into the substrate and anchors the cell or surface mycelium

Root-like structure of mosses and ferns used to attach to a substrate.

n. A cellular outgrowth of a plant that usually aids in anchoring to the surface and increasing surface area to acquire water or nutrients; found in mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

A root-like structure forming part of the thallus in certain algae and fungi; it may anchor the organism to the substratum and/or act as an absorptive organ. ( 16)

A short, thin branch of thallus, superficially resembling a root.

Pertaining to a root-like group of hyphae.

Rhizoids are a structure in plants and fungi that functions like a root in support or absorption.