Basal plate

Basal plate may refer to:


 * Basal plate (neural tube), the region of the neural tube ventral to the sulcus limitans
 * Basal plate (placenta), between this plate and the uterine muscular fibres are the stratum spongiosum and the boundary layer
 * The base of a plant's bulb
 * The pedal disc, in anatomy of the sea anemone, the surface opposite to the mouth
 * The region if electron density at which the central microtubule pair are nucleated in the eukaryotic flagellum axoneme