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'''mischoblastiomorphic''' ([[Category:Adjective]][[:Category:Adjective|adjective]]) – pertaining to a specialized spore found in ''Rinodina'', with very unevenly thickened walls and two [[funnel-shaped]] [[cell lumina]] (the lumina of two separate cells appearing like an hourglass in section); ''not'' synonymous with a [[polarilocular]] spore, where one single cell is subdivided into two or several [[locule]]s ([[bipolarilocular]] spores, where one single cell has two locules connected by an [[isthmus]], may also look like an hourglass in section, but these spores are ''not'' mischoblastiomorphic because they lack a [[proper septum]])!
In a broad sense the term mischoblastiomorphic could be applied to any spores divided by a proper septum ''and'' characterized by internal wall thickenings with somewhat constricted and thus irregular cell lumina, i.e., the typical spores of Caliciaceae and Physciaceae; in a strict sense it refers only to the ''Mischoblastia''-type of ''Rinodina'' s.l., which is characterized by very strong apical thickenings and funnel-shaped cell lumina.

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