| Four chains of basidiospores, the sexual spores of C. neoformans, are then produced from each basidium. |
| They are characterized by their principal spores being produced externally, usually in fours, upon an organ called a basidium. |
| The sporophyte may be considered to begin at the stage of nuclear association and end with the nuclear reduction in the basidium. |
| Between the nuclear association and the nuclear fusion in the basidium many thousands of cell generations may be intercalated. |
| These spores grow at the end of a special cell called the basidium, after which basidiomycetes have been named. |
| Using electron-scanning microscopy, Wu describes the way four basidiospores in Shiitake are formed on a basidium. |
