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basidium::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reproductive structure |
| Has types | promycelium |
| Derivation | basidial |
Examples of basidium
basidium
The edible Coprinellus bisporus is nearly identical but lacks the yellowish cap granules and only has two spores per basidium.
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In the Basidiomycetes, usually four spores develop on the tips of thin projections called sterigmata, which extend from a club-shaped cell called a basidium.
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Spores often have a protrusion at one end, called an apiculus, which is the point of attachment to the basidium, termed the apical germ pore, from which the hypha emerges when the spore germinates.
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- A small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
- (basidial) relating to or characterized by basidia
- A basidium (pl., basidia) is a microscopic, spore-producing structure found on the hymenophore of fruiting bodies of basidiomycete fungi. The presence of basidia is one of the main characteristic features of the Basidiomycota. ...
- A specialized sexual reproductive cell found in the fertile area of the hymenium of all Basidiomycetes, typically shaped like a baseball bat. A basidium possesses four slightly inwardly curved horns (sterigma) to which the basidiospores are attached.
- The meiosporangium of the subphylum Basidiomycotina; produces exogenous meiospores (usually 4, sometimes more, occasionally 2) on special projections called sterigmata.
- The cell or organ, diagnostic for the Basidiomycota, in which karyogamy and meiosis occurs, giving rise to basidiospores borne singly either on short extensions (sterigmata) or sessile on the basidial cell. pl. basidia. See also ustidium.
- A cell in which karyogamy and meiosis take place and which bears exogenous spores of sexual origin. (Pl. basidia.) (15)
- Enlarged terminal cell of a hypha, bearing basidiospores.
- A structure bearing on its surface a definite number of basidiospores (usually four) that are formed following karyogamy and meiosis.
