A conidium, sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium, is an asexual, non-motile spore of a fungus. The word conidium comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, κόνις. Some conidi
Chain of conidia of Alternaria
Conidiomata of Cypress canker (probably Seiridium cardinale) erupting on a Thuja twig
A sporodochium is a small, compact stroma usually formed on host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales. This stroma bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spor
Nectria cinnabarina, section of sporodochium, with young perithecium
Tubercularia fici a: sporodochium, b, c, d: showing setae and conidial formation