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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...
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without fruitbodies. The
paired dikaryon in the
basidium fuse (i.e.
karyogamy takes place). The
diploid basidium begins the
cycle again.
Coprinopsis cinerea...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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rather than ballistospores,
meaning they are not
forcibly extruded from the
basidium.
Puffballs and
similar forms are
thought to have
evolved convergently (that...
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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...
- two-spored with that of the four-spored forms.
Initially (1), the
young basidium,
appearing as a club-shaped
branch from the subhymenium, is
filled with...