Basidia

This hymenium is composed of a number of swollen, club-shaped cells, called basidia, and close to them, side by side, are sterile, elongated cells, named paraphyses. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

All of the group are characterized by the production of spores at the top of special cells known as basidia, [8] the number produced upon a single basidium varying from a single one to several. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

The fruiting bodies were very distinctive, with handsome three-sided purple caps that shaded to dark red basidia underneath. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2003)

On top of the basidia are minute stalk-like branches, called sterigmata (singular sterigma), and each branch carries a naked spore. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

Occasionally some of the basidia develop into very large sterile cells (E, _x_), projecting far beyond the others, and often reaching the neighboring gill. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

A filament grows upward -- "goniodophore" (b) -- and its apex divides up into several branches -- "basidia" (c). ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The basidia are called mother-cells because they produce the spores. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

The basidia are formed on the end of threadlike branched bodies which grow at the apex, and are called hyphæ. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

There is one great group of fungi called Basidiomycetes, so named from having their stalked spores produced on basidia. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

Within the group of fungi called the Basidiomycetes (because spores are formed on structures called basidia) are two groups of fungi of great economic importance: the rusts and smuts. ❋ Unknown (1919)

The sub-hymenium is very thin and composed of small cells; the = basidia = are clavate, 25 -- 30 × 9 -- 10 µ, and four-spored. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

Hymenium covering the entire free surface or confined to one portion; smooth, gyrose, folded or lobed; or hymenium lamellate, porous, reticulate or toothed forms which are gelatinous and provided with continuous basidia may be sought here. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

Their number is much smaller than that of the basidia, but in some species where they are colored they may greatly change the appearance of the gills. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

These cystidia extend above the basidia, and the ends are rounded so that sometimes they appear capitate. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The spore-bearing cells are _basidia_; the others are called _paraphyses_. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

= 4 = -- Basidia forked or longitudinally divided; or if continuous then globose, or bearing numerous spores; or if the plant is leathery, membranous, or floccose, then basidia as described. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The basidia are like those of the genus, globose, sunk in the substance of the plant, and terminate with four long, slender, sterigmata which rise to the surface and bear the spores. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The spores are borne on club-shaped basidia within the chambers of the fruit-bearing portion (_gleba_), and at maturity of the spores the stem or receptacle begins to elongate. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The layer just beneath the basidia is usually more or less modified, being often composed of small cells different from the rest of the trama. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)