A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

muriformis,-e (adj.B):

1. muriform; shaped like(brick or stone) walls; “flattened cellular tissue, with cells resembling bricks in a wall; 2. Koerber applies the term to certain Lichen-spores” (Jackson); resembling brickwork in a wall: parallel rows, the ends of each unit situated above the center of the unit below, as in the areolation of some species of the moss genus Daltonia; “resembling courses of bricks in arrangement; esp. having both horizontal and vertical septa, as in muriform spores’ (WIII) [> L. murus,-i (s.m.II) a wall; a bank, mound, dam]; see brickwork.

NOTE: ‘muriform’ in reference to fungus spores is synonymous with fenestrate, q.v. (Ainsworth & Bisby).

2. mouse-shaped, “resembling a mouse or rat in form or appearance” (WIII) [> L. mus, gen. sg. muris (s.c.III), the mouse].