Haustorium (plural haustoria)

The sucker of a parasitic plant by which the parasite anchors itself into the host plant.


Roots or suckers found in parasitic plants.


A structure by which a parasitic plant anchors itself to and extracts nutrition from its host.


In parasitic vascular plants, a specialized outgrowth from the stem or root that penetrates the living host tissues and absorbs foods or other materials.


A rudimentary or intricate arrangement produced from a relationship between a bough of a fungal hypha and a recipient cell into which it has infiltrated without inflicting mortal harm, typically believed to supply a mechanism through which a fungus assimilates sustenance from the recipient cells.


 


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