basidia's Usage Examples:

In young asci a similar fusion of two nuclei occurs, and also in basidia, in each case the nucleus of the ascus or of the basidium resulting from the fusion subsequently giving rise by division to the nuclei of the ascospores and basidiospores respectively.

In this by far the larger division of the Basidiomycetes the basidia are undivided and the four basidiospores are borne on short sterigmata nearly always at the apex of the basidium.

haploid nuclei, which migrate to the tips of the basidia.

, or of basidia in Exobasidium, Corticium, 'c.

Other series of modifications arise in which the tissues corresponding to the stroma invest the sporogenous hyphal ends, and thus enclose the spores, asci, basidia, 'c.

The Tremellinaceae are characterized by the possession of basidia which are divided by two vertical walls at right angles to one another.

Most of Basidiomycetes are characterized by the large sporophore on which the basidia with its basidiospores are borne.

Petersii has a transversely divided basidium as in Auriculariaceae, but the basidia are surrounded with a peridium-like sheath.

Puffballs produce basidiospores from basidia that develop within the fruitbody.

Exobasidium) the basidia are borne directly on the ordinary mycelium, but in the majority of cases the basidia are found developed in layers (hymenium) on special sporophores of characteristic form in the various groups.