Cystodermella species bear non-amyloid spores and sometimes cystidia.

This frond has two segments, both bearing spores.

This microscopic feature may be used to help distinguish it from the similar-coloured C. adnatifolia and C. granulosa, which also bear non-amyloid spores, but lack cystidia.

These plants bear spores on specialized structures at the apex of a shoot; they resemble a tiny battle club, from which the common name derives.

The leaves are green an large, and may bear spores on the underside.

Often, a second layer of tissue, the partial veil, covers the bladelike gills that bear spores.

The subdivision Agaricomycotina, also known as the hymenomycetes, is one of three taxa of the fungal division Basidiomycota (fungi bearing spores on basidia).

Some bacteria have complex life cycles involving the production of stalks and appendages (e.g. Caulobacter) and some produce elaborate structures bearing reproductive spores (e.g. Myxococcus, Streptomyces).

Under the cap there are gills; the gills bear spores that will disperse, and may develop into new fungi.

Otherwise, fungi use a sporangium to bear asexual spores by mitosis, or sexual spores by meiosis.