(|)prō+ noun
( plural promycelia )
Etymology: New Latin, from pro- (I) + mycelium
: a short usually 4-celled hyphal filament that constitutes the basidium of various heterobasidiomycetous fungi, is formed by germination of a teliospore in rusts or of a chlamydospore in smuts, and bears sporidia — called also epibasidium ; compare autobasidium