erumpent


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e·rum·pent

 (ĭ-rŭm′pənt)
adj. Biology
Bursting through a surface or covering: erumpent apothecia.

[Latin ērumpēns, ērumpent-, present participle of ērumpere, to burst out; see erupt.]
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erumpent

(ɪˈrʌmpənt)
adj
(Biology) bursting out or (esp of plant parts) developing as though bursting through an overlying structure
[C17: from Latin ērumpere to burst forth, from rumpere to shatter, burst]
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e•rum•pent

(ɪˈrʌm pənt)

adj.
bursting forth, as seeds or spores.
[1640–50; < Latin ērumpent-; see erupt]
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The symptoms caused by citrus canker are pustules to necrotic lesions consisting of erumpent corky tissues surrounded by oily or water-soaked margins and yellow halo.
UREDINIA mainly hypophyllous with spots surrounded by light green rings, mostly in groups, confluent, rounded, dark brown, erumpent. UREDINIOSPORES are single celled, globose-ovoid or subglobose, 20-27.5 x 20-30 um, wall 1-1.5 um thick, light brown to reddish brown, smooth, germ pores equatorial and 1-2.
And for Chris Packham and the team to keep themselves interested by chucking in words like "corpuscular" and "erumpent" for us all to learn.
Sexual state: Ascomata immersed, initially erumpent becoming superficial, scattered, depressed-globose, some flattened at the base, opening a disc-like lid of brown prismatic cells with setae.
Perithecia globose to subglobose, blackish, 0.4-0.9 mm diam., embedded in the host tissue, with a long, cylindrical, slender neck; neck erumpent from the substratum surface, 1.2-1.6 mm; brownish masses of spores (cirri) are frequently observed above the necks.
In October, 1995, in North America, white erumpent sori were detected on the undersurfaces of leaves of a bed of Gerbera jamesonii that diagnose as white rust [22].
2) in small, loose to dense fascicles, occasionally solitary, arising from internal hyphae or hyphal aggregations, erumpent through the cuticle or emerging through stomata, erect, subcylindrical to geniculate-sinuous, often denticulate, simple, rarely branched, 10-70 X 3-8 [micro]m, continuous to 1-3-septate, pale olivaceous, olivaceous-brown to brown, wall thin to slightly thickened, smooth of almost so; conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal of conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells, 10-25 [micro]m long; conidiogenous loci conspicuous, often denticle-like, apex truncate, 1.5 3 [micro]m wide, non-pigmented to distinctly pigmented, but consistently unthickened.
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From the mass of host cells in which parasite nuclei and mitochondria replicate, an erumpent thallus differentiates, protrudes from the host, and ultimately produces reproductive structures (spores, gametes).