a specialized sexual reproductive cell found in the fertile area of the hymenium of all Basidiomycetes, typically shaped like a baseball bat. A basidium possesses four slightly inwardly curved horns (sterigma) to which the basidiospores are attached.
(bass id´ ee yum) • In fungi of the class Basidiomycetes, the characteristic sporangium in which four spores are formed by meiosis and then borne externally before being shed.
a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
a large kind of bulb on the end where the two hyphae have come together
a spore bearing structure typical of the Basidiomycotina fungi
structure produced by basidiomycetes on which sexual spore formation occurs.
a structure bearing on its surface a definite number of basidiospores (usually four) that are formed following karyogamy and meiosis.
A specialized cell that gives rise to basidiospores. Basidia are characteristic of the Basidiomycetes.
(pl. Basidia; adj. Basidial) - Short, club-shaped fungus cell on which basidiospores are produced.
(Pl. Basidia) clavate to cylindric cell, bearing usually four basidiospores.
Enlarged terminal cell of a hypha, which bears basidiospores
club shaped sexual spore producing cell (or cells) that characterises the Basidiomycetes
A cell in which karyogamy and meiosis take place and which bears exogenous spores of sexual origin. (Pl. basidia.) ( 15)
The basidium (pl., basidia) is a microscopic structure found on the hymenophore of fruiting bodies of basidiomycete fungi. As such, the presence of basidia is one of the main characteristic features of the Basidiomycota. The basidium usually bears four sexual spores called basidiospores; occasionally the number may be two or even eight.