Sterigmata

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)

A filament (b) grows upward, its termination becomes clubbed; on the clubbed extremity flask-shaped cells appear -- "sterigmata" (c). ❋ Unknown (N/A)

These, when ripe, are cast off from the sterigmata. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In a few species the number of sterigmata is reduced to two and in some low forms the number is variable. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

They resemble each other very much, except that the basidia bear four _sterigmata_ and a spore on each. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

Basidiospores continuous or rarely septate, globose, obovoid, ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth or roughened, hyaline or colored, borne singly at the apex of sterigmata. ❋ 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)

= Organs resembling persistent decurrent footstalks, upon which leaves of spruces, etc., stand; sterigmata. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)