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Gleba   /glˈibə/   Listen
Gleba

noun
(pl. glebae)
1.
Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.





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... club-shaped basidia within the chambers of the fruit-bearing portion (gleba), and at maturity of the spores the stem or receptacle begins to elongate. This pushes the gleba and the upper part of the receptacle through the apex of the volva, leaving this as a cup-shaped body at the base, much as in certain species of Amanita, while the gleba is borne aloft on the much elongated stem. During this elongation of the receptacle a large part of the substance of the ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson


Words linked to "Gleba" :   reproductive structure, sporophore


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