a. Bot. Also sporidiferous. [f. SPORIDI-UM + (I)FEROUS.] Bearing sporidia.
α. 1836. Berkeley, in Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. II. 353. Sporidia … naked (without any … asci, or true sporidiferous flocci).
1848. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (ed. 4), II. 119. Cellular tissue, among which spores, or sporidiferous asci are generated.
1872. Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 293. Those of the former Tribe being termed Sporiferous, those of the latter Sporidiferous.
β. 1866. Treas. Bot., 610/1. The transition into the sporidiiferous fungi is not so acutely marked. Ibid., 613/1. The sporidiiferous series.
1875. Cooke, Fungi, 49. Those ampulla cells are sporidiiferous asci.
