Similar words: presidium, clostridium, hasidic, odium, radium, tedium, podium, indium. Meaning: n. a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes.
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1. Basidium (pl. basidia) The cell of the BASIDIOMYCOTA that produces the sexual spores (basidiospores).
2. These are the haploid sexual spores that were produced following meiosis inside the basidium .
3. The walls of hyphae are composed of two layers, while the walls of basidium and basidiospore are composed of three layers.
4. Usually four sterigmata, each bearing one basidiospore , are borne on each basidium.
5. The cultivated mushroom is an exception, with only two sterigmata on each basidium.
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