gleban.
/ˈɡliːbə/ Botany.
The fleshy, spore-bearing tissue of certain kinds of fungi, the Gasteromycetes and the Tuberales.
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1847 J. Lindley Elements Bot. (ed. 5) p. xliii/1 Gleba, Glebula.—The peridium or the fleshy part of certain Fungals.
1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi v. 309 They form together a mass of tissue which is distinguished from the adjoining tissue by its chambered structure and by the formation of spores and is known as the gleba.
1950 E. A. Bessey Morphol. & Taxon. Fungi xv. 531 The gleba consists of a more or less fleshy mycelial growth containing usually numerous hymenium-lined cavities (hymenial cavities) but only one in a few cases.
1968 J. H. Burnett Fund. Mycol. v. 119 One or more hymenium-lined cavities develop from potentially sporogenous tissue, the gleba.
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