archicarp

A, Small portion of mycelium with conidiophore (c), and archicarp (as).

It is more slender than the archicarp, but otherwise differs little from it.

An optical section of such a stage (Fig. 39, F) shows a double wall and the two cells of the archicarp.

In the latter the archicarp branches, each branch bearing a spore sac (Fig. 41, B).