Bot. [f. Gr. τελευτή completion, end (f. τέλος end) + SPORE.] A special form of spore, usually produced at the end of the period of fructification, in parasitic fungi of the family Uredineæ. Hence Teleutosporic a., of or pertaining to a teleutospore. So Teleuto-form, that form or stage of the fungus which produces teleutospores.
1874. Cooke, Fungi, 202. These spores … may conveniently be called resting spores, or as De Bary calls them, teleutospores, being the last which are produced.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 331.
1884. Athenæum, 18 Oct., 499/3. The probability that the teleutospore of Puccinia is also analogous to an egg, the uredospore being ‘probably a pupa state.’ Ibid. (1891), 23 May, 671/1. The extraordinary abundance … of the teleutosporic stage as compared with the comparative scarcity of the æcidial stage.
1898. trans. Strasburger’s Bot., 367. The genus Cronartium, with uredo- and teleuto-forms on Vincetoxicum and Ribes.
