holobasidiate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From holobasidi(um) + -ate.
Adjective[edit]
holobasidiate (not comparable)
- (mycology) Being or containing a holobasidium.
- 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 327:
- The basidia are holobasidiate, and rarely have adventitious septa in the metabasidium or sterigmata; they also rarely proliferate in apical linear succession.