| Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office. |
| The unfurling croziers of Dicksonia antarctica, one of the hardiest of ferns, look like a nest of baby orang-utans. |
| Typically, the fronds develop from croziers or fiddle heads that develop into a single plane. |
| Likely, the presence of mitochondria with functional complex I in the croziers allows the sexual process to proceed past the initial stages. |
| However, Neolecta lacks paraphyses, and the croziers do not develop until the ascus is formed. |
| Moreover, in contrast to wild-type croziers, almost all mutant croziers are uninucleate. |
