What Does Gleeba Mean?

What Does Gleeba Mean?

Gleba is the spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi such as the puffball or 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.

Is Gleba in the dictionary?

noun, plural gle·bae [glee-bee]. Mycology. the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.

What does Phalange mean?

Phalanges: The bones of the fingers and of the toes. There are generally three phalanges (distal, middle, proximal) for each digit except the thumbs and large toes. The singular of phalanges is phalanx.

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