sterigmata

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

Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin

A filament (b) grows upward, its termination becomes clubbed; on the clubbed extremity flask-shaped cells appear -- "sterigmata" (c).

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

These, when ripe, are cast off from the sterigmata.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

In a few species the number of sterigmata is reduced to two and in some low forms the number is variable.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

They resemble each other very much, except that the basidia bear four _sterigmata_ and a spore on each.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

Basidiospores continuous or rarely septate, globose, obovoid, ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth or roughened, hyaline or colored, borne singly at the apex of sterigmata.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

The basidia are like those of the genus, globose, sunk in the substance of the plant, and terminate with four long, slender, sterigmata which rise to the surface and bear the spores.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

= Organs resembling persistent decurrent footstalks, upon which leaves of spruces, etc., stand; sterigmata.

Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860