conidiophore (konidiofor)

[ conidium (kō-nid'i-um), n.; pl. conidia (-a). [NL. (>F. conidie ), The Penicillium , or "green mould,". sends up from its mycelium a branching stem, the ramifications of which subdivide into a brush-like tuft of filaments, each of which bears at its extremity a succe ion of minute "beads" termed conidia . 1195 Carboniferous measures, and continue upward through all subsequent formations.