| 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. |
| Most of basidiomycetes are characterized by the large sporophore on which the basidia with its basidiospores are borne. |
| 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. |
| The basidia are called mother-cells because they produce the spores. |
| Then there will be either lamellae, or gills, or pores, with hymenial layers bearing the basidia. |
