After a few more days of incubation, the ends of some mycelia may enlarge and form basidia within which nuclear fusion and meiosis may occur. |
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Then there will be either lamellae, or gills, or pores, with hymenial layers bearing the basidia. |
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Most importantly, monokaryotic hyphae can produce basidia and spores that are indistinguishable from sexually produced spores, except that they are all the same mating type. |
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The best known family, Agaricaceae, has basidia located on gills. |
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At the microscopic level the basidiospores are shot off basidia and then fall between the gills in the dead air space. |
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Its urnigerate basidia are not found in any of the Exobasidiaceae, but they do occur in the related Brachybasidiaceae. |
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