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caulohymenium

caulohymenium noun: a fruiting layer in some fungi.

Noun

caulohymenium

  1. A fruiting layer in some fungi
    • Lateral stipe stratum under the caulohymenium present and well differentiated from the stipe trama, of the “boletoid type”, at the stipe apex a 40–100 (160) μm thick layer consisting of divergent, inclined and running towards the external surface, loosely intermingled and sparingly branched hyphae...2015 August 12, “Circumscription and Taxonomic Arrangement of Nigroboletus roseonigrescens Gen. Et Sp. Nov., a New Member of Boletaceae from Tropical South–Eastern China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of caulohymenium

From caulo- + hymenium.

Questions about caulohymenium

What does caulohymenium mean?
Caulohymenium means a fruiting layer in some fungi.
What part of speech is caulohymenium?
Caulohymenium is a noun.

Words near caulohymenium in the dictionary

  1. caulocarpous
  2. caulocystidial
  3. caulocystidium
  4. caulode
  5. caulodes
  6. caulohymenium
  7. cauloid
  8. caulome
  9. caulomer
  10. caulomers
  11. caulomes

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