STERIGMA

[ste.rig.ma] n, pl -ma.ta also -mas [NL, fr. Gk sterigma support, fr. sterizein to prop; perh. akin to Gk stereos solid--more at stare] (ca. 1866): one of the slender stalks at the top of the basidium of some fungi from the tips of which the basidiospores are formed; broadly: a stalk or filament that bears conidia or spermatia