# Elater
**Source**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/elater
**Parent**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/
one of the four hygroscopic bodies developing from the [perispore](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/perispore "the folded membrane which assists a spore to float in the air.").
## Related terms
- [Perispore](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/perispore)- Title
- Elater
- Category
- undergraduate
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- Source URL
- https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/elater
- Parent URL
- https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/
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