basidium

This is where the spore was attached to the basidium.

Often such species form only two spores per basidium, but that too varies.

The four nuclei crowd together at some distance from the end of the basidium to form an irregular mass (14).

Members of this group form a basidium, a club-shaped reproductive structure that bears spores at one end.

Many basidiospores have an asymmetric shape due to their development on the basidium.

Following meiosis, mitotic divisions can occur in the basidium.

A view of the active basidium in heterobasidiomycetes.

Basidiomycetes form sexual spores externally from a structure called a basidium.

Basidiospores are the result of sexual reproduction and formed on a structure called the basidium.

These spores are passively released and may remain on the basidium in chains, unless disturbed.

An immature basidium is known as a basidiole.

The basidium may be stalked or sessile.

In summary, meiosis takes place in a diploid basidium.

The diploid basidium begins the cycle again.

A basidium usually bears four sexual spores called basidiospores; occasionally the number may be two or even eight.

Four basidiospores develop on appendages from each basidium.

Each basidium features four sterigmata, each of which bear one spore.

The spores are borne on basidia, with four spores per basidium.

They are formed on the basidium as it develops and undergoes meiosis, to result in the production of (typically) four nuclei.

Each basidium bares four spores.

Jamie's blunt forefinger flipped one off its stem, and traced the spokes of the basidium as he marshaled his next words.

A promycelium is formed that consists of a short hypha (equated to a basidium).

Basidiospores: spores produced by a basidium, characteristic of basidiomycetes.

Sterigmata, the slender projections of the basidium that bear the spores, may be straight or curved, and up to 7-8 m long.

As the basidium grows larger, the membranes of the two nuclei contact (2), and then the membrane disappears at the point of contact (3).