Hymenomycete
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| Hymenomycetes | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Subkingdom: | Dikarya |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
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Hymenomycetes are the largest class of fungi within the phylum Basidiomycota. Many familiar fungi belong to this class, including bracket fungi and toadstools.[1] This class contains the orders Agaricales, Boletales, and Russulales.
Formerly a taxonomic group of basidiomycetes, now understood as polyphyletic assemblage of basidiomycetes, the term refers to fungi with fruit bodies whose hymenophore develops either not enclosed or only so with a veil (velum), which is called a gymnocarpic or hemiangiocarpic ontogeny, respectively. Puffballs, on the other hand, have gasterocarpic development (hymenophore enclosed).
[edit] References
- ^ Sharma, O.P. (1988). Textbook of Fungi. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. pp. 244–. ISBN 9780074603291. http://books.google.com/books?id=4fcGAZBbZHAC.
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