trichogynes

Noun

trichogyne (plural trichogynes)

1. The slender, hair-like cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in female red algae, lichens and fungi.
   • 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...2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54