Meanings
plural basidiocarps
- biologyA mushroom which contains basidia.
For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes.
1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 4221 more example
The sexual stage of the fungus, the basidiocarp, arises as a pseudorhiza from a fungus comb and continues as a stipe, terminating in a cap with a prominent umbo or perforatorium.
2012, Bozzano G Luisa, Insect-Fungus Interactions, page 74
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