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intended to ignore the fact that even as spore-bodies, having 

 the function of spores, may be designated specifically as spore, 

 sporidium, sporule, or conidium, so also the carpophore may, 

 in some cases, more fitly be called a basidium, sporophore, or 

 conidiophore. 



