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Basidium vs Sterigma - What's the difference?

basidium | sterigma |

As nouns the difference between basidium and sterigma

is that basidium is a small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections while sterigma is a slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.

basidium

English

Noun

(basidia)
  • (mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "basidium")

    sterigma

    English

    Noun

    (sterigmata)
  • (biology) A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.
  • (biology) A woody projection from the tip of the leaf base in certain conifers (Picea'' and ''Tsuga ).
  • * {{quote-book, year=2009, author=Eckenwalder, J.E., publisher=Timber Press, isbn=978-0881929744
    • , title=Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference , passage=These sterigmata are retained and make the twigs rough for several years after leaf fall.}}
  • (biology) Part of the genitalia of moths.

    • Derived terms

    * sterigmatic

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