sporodochium

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File:Nectria cinnabarina sporodochium.jpg, section of sporodochium, with young perithecium]]

A sporodochium (pl. sporodochia{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFjVCQAAQBAJ&q=sporodochium+explained&pg=PA470|title=The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners: 6000 Scientific Terms Explored and Explained|last=Allaby|first=Michael|date=5 September 2015|publisher=Timber Press|isbn=9781604697155|language=en}}){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FE6xqRZ-q-EC&q=sporodochium&pg=PA77|title=Principles of Plant Pathology|last=Dasgupta|first=M. K.|date=1988|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=9788170231929|language=en}} is a small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales (subdivision Deuteromycota, class Hyphomycetes). This stroma bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed.

File:Tubercularia fici sporodochium.jpg a: sporodochium, b, c, d: showing setae and conidial formation]]