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Basidium vs Cystocarp - What's the difference?

basidium | cystocarp |

As nouns the difference between basidium and cystocarp

is that basidium is (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 while cystocarp is a minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive spores.

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")

    cystocarp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive spores.

    • See also

    * carposporophyte (Webster 1913)