Definition of Class gasteromycetes

1. Noun. Fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi.


Literary usage of Class gasteromycetes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants by Margaret Plues (1864)
"... characteristic of the first class (Hymenomycetes); the envelope marking the second class (Gasteromycetes); the prevalence of dust-like spores in the ..."

2. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1825)
"... a genus of the order PYRENOMYCETES, of the class GASTEROMYCETES, of Fungi, arranged according to the system of Dr. Elias Fries, and is supplementary to ..."

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