This globule is the gonosphere, or reproductive sphere, which, through the means of fecundation, should become the reproductive body, vegetable egg, or oospore.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Its extremity never opens, and we never find antherozoids; on the contrary, the antheridium presents, up to the maturity of the oospore, the appearance which it presented at the moment of fecundation.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
This oospore, or resting spore, may remain dormant in this state within the tissues of the foster plant for some months.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke