basidium

A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections. [from 19th c.]

Noun

  1. A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections. [from 19th c.]
    • The walls of these scleroid basidia often reach 1 μm or more in thickness and the walls stain deeply with congo red. - 1981, Timothy J. Baroni, A Revision of the Genus Rhodocybe Maire (Agaricales), page 24:

Origin

A Latinized form of Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “base”) + -idium.

Forms

basidia

Derived

basidiate basidiocarp basidiospore epibasidium holobasidium hypobasidium metabasidium phragmobasidium probasidium