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What are basidia?

What are basidia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of basidium
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In the young stage the basidia in the Hypogi are easily distinguished by the aid of the microscope.
Most of basidiomycetes are characterized by the large sporophore on which the basidia with its basidiospores are borne.
At the microscopic level the basidiospores are shot off basidia and then fall between the gills in the dead air space.
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.
The basidia are abruptly club-shaped, rather distant and separated regularly by rounded cells, four spored.
Paraphyses and sometimes cystidia or spines are intermingled with the basidia.

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