Fruiting body: A general term for the spore-producing structure produced during the reproductive stage in the myxomycete life cycle; the structure within which (or in one case, on the surface of which) the spores are produced; also referred to as a fructification or sporophore.

Sporangium

Plasmodiocarp

Aethalium

Pseudoaethalium

 

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