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Hymenomycete

Hymenomycete: formerly a taxonomic group of basidiomycetes, now understood as polyphyletic[?] assemblage of basidiomycetes. Refers to fungi with fruit bodies whose hymenophore developes 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).

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