Bot. [f. prec. + SPORE.] One or other of the peculiar summer spores developed during the uredo stage in rust fungi.
1875. Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’s Bot., 248. These uredospores are dispersed after the rupture of the epidermis.
1882. Bentley, Man. Bot. (ed. 4), 372. From which vertical branches shoot upwards bearing at their extremities oval granular spores, the uredospores.
Hence Uredosporic a., ‘of or pertaining to a uredospore’ (Cent. Dict., 1891); Uredosporiferous a., bearing uredospores; Uredosporous a., characterized by uredospores.
1895. M. C. Cooke, Study Fungi, xx. 242. The uredosporiferous sori are variously coloured. Ibid., xx. 248. Species of uredosporous Uredines.
