A basidium (pl.: basidia) is a microscopic spore-producing structure found on the hymenophore of reproductive bodies of basidiomycete fungi. The presence...

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...

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...

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...

thick-walled resting spore of some fungi (rusts and smuts), from which the basidium arises. They develop in telia (sing. telium or teliosorus). The telial...

rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not forcibly extruded from the basidium. Puffballs and similar forms are thought to have evolved convergently (that...

Typical reproductive structure of a basidiomycete, including the basidiospore and basidium...

small supporting structure. It commonly refers to an extension of the basidium (the spore-bearing cells) consisting of a basal filamentous part and a...

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...

noted. The spores are sessile (growing directly from the surface of the basidium, without attachment via a sterigmata), and are separated from the basidia...

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...

basidiocarps are recognized by not having an annulus around the stalk of the basidium. The basidiospores infect the trees. After two years, it only killed 3...

central apiculus (a depressed area when the spore was once attached to the basidium via the sterigma). When mounted in distilled water, they have a coarsely...

2 cm in height. The hymenium covers the sides of the basidiocarps, each basidium producing and forcibly discharging only two basidiospores. It is inedible...

sterigma and a new spore, which is then discharged as if from a normal basidium. In contrast, homobasidiomycetes, in addition to having aseptate basidia...

partly septate). These spores are passively released and may remain on the basidium in chains, unless disturbed. In the type species, the spores germinate...

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to the Mushroom Planet) are set on a tiny, habitable second moon called Basidium in an invisible orbit 50,000 miles (80,000 km) from Earth. There is an...

during the separation of the attachment of the spore to the sterigma of the basidium. Specimen from Florida, US Beetles feeding on a specimen in Virginia The...

indentation in the surface of the spore where it was previously connected to the basidium via the sterigma. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are six-spored. Receptacle...

comprehensive description of the basidium and cystidium of basidiomycete fungi, and was able to establish the role that the basidium played in spore production...

A plage is a discrete, smooth and flat to concave patch near the former point of attachment to a basidium on otherwise textured spores. Click image....

identical but lacks the yellowish cap granules and only has two spores per basidium. The scaly inky cap (Coprinus variegatus = Coprinus quadrifidus) has a...

become ellipsoid when they mature. They contain 1-4 tubular sterigmata per basidium. They lack hyphidia and do not have a macroscopic fruiting body. Their...

evergreen host, which produces teliospores that germinate creating a basidium. The basidium then produces basidiospores, which are released via wind and rain...

between two and four sessile spores that are directly attached to the basidium, rather than via a sterigma. Revealed only after the spore is separated...

beach community in California, as well as on a tiny, habitable moon, "Basidium", in an invisible orbit 50,000 miles from Earth. The "Mushroom Planet,"...

spore produced on a basidium, typically following karyogamy and meiosis, typically containing one or two haploid nuclei. basidium A cell or organ where...

depression where the spore was once attached via the sterigmatum to the basidium (the spore-bearing cell). When in potassium hydroxide (KOH) solution, the...