Basidioma
basidioma
basidioma
(bə-sĭd’ē-ō’mə)
Plural basidiomata (bə-sĭd’ē-ō’mə-tə)
A club-shaped, fleshy, spore-producing structure characteristic of many species of basidiomycete fungi. The basidioma grows out of the mass of hyphae known as a mycelium and bears the spore-dispersing structures called basidia. Mushrooms, toadstools, stinkhorns, and puffballs are basidiomata.
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basidiomata basidioma (bə-sĭd’ē-ō’mə) Plural basidiomata (bə-sĭd’ē-ō’mə-tə) A club-shaped, fleshy, spore-producing structure characteristic of many species of basidiomycete fungi. The basidioma grows out of the mass of hyphae known as a mycelium and bears the spore-dispersing structures called basidia. Mushrooms, toadstools, stinkhorns, and puffballs are basidiomata.
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Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs. noun any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the […]
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the basidiomycetes considered as belonging to the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi.
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