Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Fungi Glossary
Title |
Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basal | The area at the base of the stem | ||
| Basidia | Club-shaped cells on which spores are produced in basidiomycetes | ||
| Basidiocarp | Fruiting body of fungi of the Basidiomycota, bearing basidia | ||
| Basidiomycetes | Major group of fungi characterised by development of basidia on which sexual basidiaspores are produced. Includes gill bearing fungi, boletes, polypores, clavarias, jelly fungi, & gasteromycetes | ||
| Basidiospore | Reproductive cell (spore) of the basidiomycete fungi | ||
| Basidium | Microscopic structure on which basidiospores develop | ||
| basipetal | produced in succesion towards the base. | ||
| Binding hyphae | Much branched thick-walled hyphae without dividing cell walls, which bind other hyphae together | ||
| biseriate | arranged in two rows | ||
| bitunicate | 2 walled | ||
| Boitrophic | Obtaining nutrients from living host cells without killing them | ||
| Bulb (bulbous) | Abruptly swollen basal region of stem | ||
| byssoid | made up of slender threads |