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gleba
[ glee-buh ]
noun
- the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
gleba
/ ²µ±ôŧ′²úÉ™ /
, Plural glebae ²µ±ôŧ′²úŧ′
- The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of the basidiomycete fungus known as the puffball.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ±ô±ðb²¹±ô adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
The fruit-bodies are of very various shapes, showing a differentiation into an outer peridium and an inner spore-bearing mass, the gleba.
When old the gleba consists of a dusty mass of threads and spores.
Peridium irregularly globose, thick, attenuated downward into a stem-like base, opening by disintegration of its upper portion; internal mass or gleba divided into distinct sac-like cells.
During this elongation of the receptacle a large part of the substance of the gleba dissolves into a thick liquid containing the spores.
We have not examined any specimens of Camillea globosa, but suspect a section would show two divisions of the gleba, as in the next.
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