Usually means: Sterile filaments among reproductive structures.
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  1. paraphyses: Merriam-Webster
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  1. paraphyses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Paraphyses)

▸ noun:  erect sterile filament-like support structures occurring among the reproductive apparatuses of fungi, ferns, bryophytes and some thallophytes.


Opposite:
antiparaphyses, epihymenium, hymenium, hypothecium

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antiparaphyses, epihymenium, hymenium, hypothecium




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