Question: Information: - Secotioid fungi are an intermediate growth form between mushroom-like hymenomycetes and closed bag-shaped gasteromycetes, where an evolutionary process of gasteromycetation has started but not run to completion. Secotioid fungi may or may not have opening caps, but in any case they often lack the vertical geotropic orientation of the hymenophore needed to allow the spores to be dispersed by wind, and the basidiospores are not forcibly discharged or otherwise prevented from being dispersed (e.g. gills completely inclosed and never exposed as in the secotioid form of "Lentinus tigrinus")notesome mycologists do not consider a species to be secotioid unless it has lost ballistospory. - Gleba is the fleshy spore - bearing inner mass of 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 . The gleba may be sticky or it may be enclosed in a case ( peridiole ) . It is a tissue usually found in an angiocarpous fruit - body , especially gasteromycetes . Angiocarpous fruit - bodies usually consist of fruit enclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself ; such as the filbert covered by its husk , or the acorn seated in its cupule . The presence of gleba can be found in earthballs and puffballs . The gleba consists of mycelium , and basidia and may also contain capillitium threads . Gleba found on the fruit body of species in the family Phallaceae is typically gelatinous , often fetid - smelling , and deliquescent ( becoming liquid from the absorption of water ) . It is formed on the exterior face of the cap or the upper part of the fruit body . The foul smell helps to attract insects that help disperse the spores . Chemicals that contribute to the odor include methylmercaptan and hydrogen sulfide . - A puffball is a member of any of several groups of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The puffballs were previously treated as a taxonomic group called the Gasteromycetes or Gasteromycetidae, but they are now known to be a polyphyletic assemblage. The distinguishing feature of all puffballs is that they do not have an open cap with spore-bearing gills. Instead, spores are produced internally, in a spheroidal fruitbody called a gasterothecium (gasteroid ('stomach-like') basidiocarp). As the spores mature, they form a mass called a gleba in the centre of the fruitbody that is often of a distinctive color and texture. The basidiocarp remains closed until after the spores have been released from the basidia. Eventually, it develops an aperture, or dries, becomes brittle, and splits, and the spores escape. The spores of puffballs are statismospores rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not actively shot off the basidium. The fungi are called puffballs because clouds of brown dust-like spores are emitted when the mature fruitbody bursts, or in response to impacts such as those of falling raindrops. Puffballs and similar forms are thought to have evolved convergently (that is, in numerous independent events) from Hymenomycetes by "gasteromycetation", through secotioid stages. Thus, 'Gasteromycetes' and 'Gasteromycetidae' are now considered to be descriptive, morphological terms (more properly "gasteroid" or "gasteromycetes", to avoid taxonomic implications) but not valid cladistic terms. - In fungi, a basidiocarp, basidiome or basidioma (plural: basidiomata) is the sporocarp of a basidiomycete, the multicellular structure on which the spore-producing hymenium is borne. Basidiocarps are characteristic of the hymenomycetes; rusts and smuts do not produce such structures. As with other sporocarps, epigeous (above-ground) basidiocarps that are visible to the naked eye (especially those with a more or less agaricoid morphology) are commonly referred to as mushrooms, while hypogeous (underground) basidiocarps are usually called false truffles. - Basidiomycota is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'gleba' exhibits the relationship of 'part of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - division - eye - mass - may - mushroom - sporocarp - stomach - subkingdom
Answer:
mushroom