[tee-lee-uh-spawr, -spohr, tel-ee-] 
| a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium. |
| te·li·o·spore (tē'lē-ə-spôr', -spōr') n. A thick-walled, usually blackish resting spore of some rusts and smuts, from which the basidium arises. Also called teleutospore. [teli(um) + spore.] te'li·o·spor'ic (-spôr'ĭk, -spŏr'-) adj. |
teliospore
in fungi (kingdom Fungi), a thick-walled, winter or resting spore of rust fungi (phylum Basidiomycota) borne in a fruiting structure (telium) from which a club-shaped structure (basidium) is produced.
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