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Definition of Basidium

Basidium
Basidium Ba*sid"i*um, n. [NL., dim. of Gr. ? base.] (Bot.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

Meaning of Basidium from wikipedia

- A basidium (pl.: basidia) is a microscopic spore-producing structure found on the hymenop**** of reproductive bodies of basidiomycete fungi. These bodies...
- without fruitbodies. The paired dikaryon in the basidium fuse (i.e. karyogamy takes place). The diploid basidium begins the cycle again. Coprinopsis cinerea...
- thick-walled resting spore of some fungi (rusts and ****s), from which the basidium arises. They develop in telia (sing. telium or teliosorus). The telial...
- basidia. Typically, four basidiospores develop on appendages from each basidium, of which two are of one strain and the other two of its opposite strain...
- 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...
- Typical reproductive structure of a basidiomycete, including the basidiospore and basidium...
- rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not forcibly extruded from the basidium. Puffballs and similar forms are thought to have evolved convergently (that...
- Little, Brown in 1954. It is set in Pacific Grove, California, and on Basidium, a tiny habitable moon of Earth, invisible from the planet in its orbit...
- indentation left on a spore when it separates from the sterigma of the basidium. A hilum can also be a nucleus of a starch grain; the point around which...
- noted. The spores are sessile (growing directly from the surface of the basidium, without attachment via a sterigmata), and are separated from the basidia...