Gleba

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The gleba of the thick-skinned potato bovist is dark in color.

As Gleba (German fruit mass ) is called in Mycology the spore- forming inside of a stomach fungus -Fruchtkörpers.

In some species , the gleba consists of cavities lined with hymenium , the so-called gleba chambers. In other species, the basidia are irregularly distributed in the gleba. When the fruit bodies ripen, a large part or all of the hyphae are broken down by autolysis , so that the gleba of the ripe fruit bodies consists only of spores or of spores and thick-walled, hair-like threads formed from hyphae.

Sometimes all parts of the fruiting body enclosed by the peridia are also referred to as gleba, as some sterile parts inside the fruiting body have also emerged from the gleba. The subgleba belongs to the sterile parts of the interior of the fruiting body . It lies below the Gleba. With some belly mushrooms, it is separated from the gleba by a parchment-like separating layer, the diaphragm . As Columella refers to a sterile, more or less columnar structure that protrudes from below into the Gleba. In the gleba one often finds sterile fibers (thick-walled hyphae), which are referred to as capillitium . They prevent the mature spore mass from sticking together so that it can be better dusted. They are often more or less colored. In contrast, thin-walled, colorless, regularly septate hyphae in the gleba are called paracapillitium .

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