Basidia is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 103 anagrams from letters in basidia (aabdiis).
First recorded in 1855-60; bas(is) + -idium
basidia transversely septate; no teleutospores; saprophytes.
These cystidia extend above the basidia, and the ends are rounded so that sometimes they appear capitate.
The basidia are called mother-cells because they produce the spores.
The basidia are abruptly club-shaped, rather distant and separated regularly by rounded cells, four spored.
In the young stage the basidia in the Hypogi are easily distinguished by the aid of the microscope.
They resemble each other very much, except that the basidia bear four sterigmata and a spore on each.
The spore-bearing cells are basidia; the others are called paraphyses.
Parasites without fruit-body; basidia exposed on surface of host.
Paraphyses (sterile cells) and sometimes cystidia (longer sterile cells) or spines are intermingled with the basidia.
basidia transversely septate; teleutospores present; parasites.
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