| 11. | Ceratobasidiaceae have aseptate basidia, but the sterigmata are quite large and irregular and the spores are self-replicating.
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| 12. | The basidia ( spore-bearing cells ) deflate after ejecting their attached spores, and no sterigmata were detected.
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| 13. | In some Basidiomycota the spores are not ballistic, and the sterigmata may be straight, reduced to stubbs, or absent.
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| 14. | They have eight sterigmata ( slender extensions that attach to the spores ), as well as a clamp at their base.
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| 15. | For example, Dacrymycetaceae possess very large and irregularly shaped sterigmata as well as self-replicating spores, but have aseptate basidia.
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| 16. | The spores are attached to the end of the basidia by four projections called sterigmata that are 1 3.5 �m long.
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| 17. | Eventually, from the stomata, hyphae extend out and elongate, branching into sterigmata or conidiophores ( spore-bearing structures ).
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| 18. | They measure 14 to 22 by 3.5 to 5 ?m, and each sport four " curved and remarkably thin " sterigmata.
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| 19. | The sterigmata are formed on the basidium as it develops and undergoes meiosis, to result in the production of ( typically ) four nuclei.
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| 20. | Basidia ( spore-bearing cells ) are club-shaped with two to four sterigmata, and measure 15 20 by 5 8 �m.
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