What is Basidium?
[[File:Basidie-ohne-Text.PNG|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Drawing of a basidium}}]] A '''basidium''' (plural '''basidia''') is a microscopic type of [[spore]]-producing [[cell]] found on certain [[fungi]]. Most often the basidia are elongated and [[club (weapon)|club ]] [[shape]]d. But there is variation in the shape.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fungi/two-groups.html |title=Classifying fungi into ascomycetes and basidiomycetes |author=Heino Lepp |publisher=Australian National Botanic Gardens and Australian National Herbarium, Canberra |access-date=2 January 2016}}</ref> A basidium usually bears four sexual spores called [[basidiospores]].<ref>Kent H. McKnight; Roger Tory Peterson; Vera B. McKnight, ''A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), pp. 16–17</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{Fungus}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Fungi]]