gleba

American  

[glee-buh] / ˈgli bə /

noun

Mycology.

plural

glebae

1. the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.

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gleba Scientific  

/ glē′bə /

plural

glebae

1. The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of the basidiomycete fungus known as the puffball.

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Other Word Forms

• glebal adjective

Etymology

Origin of gleba

1840–50; < New Latin, Latin glēba clod; see glebe

Example Sentences

It starts to spread a jelly-like slime called a gleba, which is a nauseating greenish-black color that contains its spores.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

We have not examined any specimens of Camillea globosa, but suspect a section would show two divisions of the gleba, as in the next.

From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by Lloyd, C. G.

The gleba, or spore-bearing portion, in the early stage forms a conical honeycombed cap within the inner shell or membrane, concealing the stem to which it is attached.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Plants membranaceous, leathery or fleshy, furnished with a peridium and gleba, the latter being sometimes supported on a receptacle.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The chambers are called the gleba and this is surrounded by the peridium or rind, which in different puffballs exhibits various characteristic ways of opening to let the spores escape.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha