Basidium

A basidium (plural basidia) is a microscopic type of spore-producing cell found on certain fungi. Most often the basidia are elongated and club shaped. But there is variation in the shape.^[1] A basidium usually bears four sexual spores called basidiospores.^[2]

References

↑ Heino Lepp. "Classifying fungi into ascomycetes and basidiomycetes". Australian National Botanic Gardens and Australian National Herbarium, Canberra. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
↑ Kent H. McKnight; Roger Tory Peterson; Vera B. McKnight, A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), pp. 16–17

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[1] Heino Lepp. "Classifying fungi into ascomycetes and basidiomycetes". Australian National Botanic Gardens and Australian National Herbarium, Canberra. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[2] Kent H. McKnight; Roger Tory Peterson; Vera B. McKnight, A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), pp. 16–17

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