Gleba
Gleba (stinkhorn.
The gleba is a solid mass of spores, generated within an enclosed area within the
sporocarp. The continuous maturity of the sporogenous cells leave the spores behind as a powdery mass that can be easily blown away. The gleba may be sticky or it may be enclosed in a case (peridiole).[1]
It is a tissue usually found in an angiocarpous fruit-body, especially
basidia and may also contain capillitium threads.[2]
Gleba found on the fruit body of species in the family
methylmercaptan and hydrogen sulfide.[3]
A subgleba is a "sterile, filamentous or chambered tissue which supports the gleba".[4]
References
- ^ "gleba definition". Mycological Glossary. Illinois, United States: Illinois Mycological Association. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
As the spores mature, the sporogenous cells often liquify and/or disintegrate, leaving just the spores behind as a powdery mass that can easily blow away... In other cases, the gleba may be sticky, as in Sphaerobolus stellatus; or it may be enclosed in a case (called a peridiole), as in the Nidulariaceae.
- ISBN 0-916422-74-7.
- ^ Miller and Miller (1988), p. 75.
- ^ Grgurinovic, C. A. (1996). "Fungi of Australia Glossary". dcceew.gov.au.
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