basidia

This hymenium is composed of a number of swollen, club-shaped cells, called basidia, and close to them, side by side, are sterile, elongated cells, named paraphyses.

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All of the group are characterized by the production of spores at the top of special cells known as basidia, [8] the number produced upon a single basidium varying from a single one to several.

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The fruiting bodies were very distinctive, with handsome three-sided purple caps that shaded to dark red basidia underneath.

Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

The fruiting bodies were very distinctive, with handsome three-sided purple caps that shaded to dark red basidia underneath.

Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

On top of the basidia are minute stalk-like branches, called sterigmata (singular sterigma), and each branch carries a naked spore.

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Occasionally some of the basidia develop into very large sterile cells (E, _x_), projecting far beyond the others, and often reaching the neighboring gill.

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The basidia are called mother-cells because they produce the spores.

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A filament grows upward -- "goniodophore" (b) -- and its apex divides up into several branches -- "basidia" (c).

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The basidia are formed on the end of threadlike branched bodies which grow at the apex, and are called hyphæ.

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There is one great group of fungi called Basidiomycetes, so named from having their stalked spores produced on basidia.

Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin