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'Teliospore' (sometimes called 'teleutospore') is the thick-walled resting spore of some fungi (rusts and smuts), from which the basidium arises.

Contents

Development

Morphology

See also

References

Development

They develop in ''telia'' (or ''teliosoruses'').

Morphology

Teliospores are usually dark-coloured, and consist of two dikaryote cells. As the spores germinate, the nuclei undergo karyogamy and thereafter meiosis, giving rise to four-celled basidia with haploid basidiospores.
They also have a thick-capped telia as compared to urediniospores.

See also

★ Chlamydospore

★ Urediniomycetes

★ Urediniospore

★ Ustilaginomycetes

References

★ C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell, ''Introductory Mycology, 4^th ed.'' (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN: 0-471-52229-5