Gasteromycetes

gasteromycetes Translingual thumbnail|common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum species) thumbnail|devil's fingers (Clathrus archeri species) Etymology From mul la gaster belly + mul -o- -mycetes. Proper noun mul archaic class phylum Basidiomycota a polyphyletic group of fungi (gasteromycetes) that produce spores inside their fruiting bodies, including puffballs, stinkhorns, bird's nest fungi or false truffles en mul The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise C. G. Ainsworth; Frederick Kroeber Sparrow Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow; Alfred S. Sussman New York, N.Y.; London w:Academic Press 1965 volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi) 422 https://archive.org/details/fungiadvancedtre0000ains_i9d2/page/422/mode/1up 0-120-45601-X For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes. Hypernyms group ; Agaricomycetes class – class Hyponyms Bovista genus, Calvatia genus, Clathrus genus, Crucibulum genus, Cyathus genus, Hymenogaster genus, Lycoperdon genus, Lysurus genus, Melanogaster, Mutinus genus, Phallus genus, Rhizopogon genus – genera Translations group of fungi Czech: cs břichatkovité f-p Slovak: sk bruchatkovité f-p References gasteroid fungi Fungi (classifications) 417191 1 mul compound terms terms interfixed with -o- mul Mushrooms