| These spores grow at the end of a special cell called the basidium, after which basidiomycetes have been named. |
| Four chains of basidiospores, the sexual spores of C. neoformans, are then produced from each basidium. |
| Basidium, the characteristic spore-producing organ of the basidiomycetes. |
| Conidia borne in fours on a special conidiophore, the basidium. |
| There is also a further reduction in that the basidium is not derived from a teleutospore but is borne directly on the mycelium. |
| Between the nuclear association and the nuclear fusion in the basidium many thousands of cell generations may be intercalated. |
