A system of hair-like or thread-like structures found in certain fungi and organisms, often used for reproduction or spore dispersal.
Latin term combining capillus (hair) with the diminutive or descriptive suffix -itium. First used systematically in mycological literature in the 18th century to describe fungal anatomy.
In puffball fungi and slime molds, the capillitium acts like an internal skeleton made entirely of threads—when you squeeze a puffball, these threads help push millions of spores out like a biological powder bomb!
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