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).
[1] It is a tissue usually found in an angiocarpous fruit-body, especially
gasteromycetes. Angiocarpous fruit-bodies usually consists 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 consits of
mycelium, and
basidia and may also contain capillitium threads.
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