trichogyne
The slender, hair-like cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in female red algae, lichens and fungi.
Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple.
Where it comes from
French, from Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “female”)
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry trichogyne (CC BY-SA 4.0).