Table on Spores and Sporangia

picture/book reference/spore

exo-/endospore

mito/meiospore; N or 2N

number of spores

motililty

 15-45 ascus/ascospores

endospore

meiospore

N

typically 8 and in one row

aplanospore

 15-18

basidium and basidiospores

exospore

meiospore

N

typically 4, one per sterigma

aplanospore

15-10 17-4

15-11

sporangia and sporangiospores

endospore

meiospore (then N) or mitospore (then N or 2N); depends on the fungus

20-many

aplanospore or zoospore; depending on the fungus

 

 15-34 conidiospores and conidiophores

exospore

mitospore

N or 2N depending on the fungus

1 to many; depending on the fungus

aplanospore