Gasteromycetes

See also: gasteromycetes

Translingual

common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)

devil's fingers (Clathrus archeri)

Etymology

From Latin gaster (“belly”) + -o- +‎ -mycetes.

Proper noun

Gasteromycetes

1. (archaic) A taxonomic class within the 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.
   • 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi) (in English), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:

     For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes.

Hypernyms

• (group): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Dikarya – subkingdom; Basidiomycota – phylum; Agaricomycetes – class

Hyponyms

• Bovista^{WP WSp Commons}, Calvatia, Clathrus, Crucibulum^{WP WSp Commons}, Cyathus, Hymenogaster, Lycoperdon, Lysurus, Melanogaster, Mutinus, Phallus, Rhizopogon^{WP WSp Commons} – genera

Translations

group of fungi

• Czech: břichatkovité f pl
• Slovak: bruchatkovité f pl

References

• gasteroid fungi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fungi (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gasteromycetes at MycoBank