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What does hymenium mean?

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Noun
  1. (mycology) The sporebearing surface of a fungus.
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In such specimens it will be seen that the hymenium has become highly convoluted or lacunose.
The cross-section shows the cup to be made of vegatative hyphae with the hymenium layer exposed.
Lloyd, is a mushroom belonging to the species of Polyporaceae family, which is characterized by hymenium in vertical pores on the underside of the caps.
Since the perithecium grows out into the medium from the hymenium after nuclear pairing, this is ascohymenial development.
In the nongilled mushrooms, the hymenium lines the inner surfaces of the tubes of boletes and polypores, or covers the teeth of spine fungi and the branches of corals.
Unlike some related, duller-coloured species, the hymenium does not turn blood-red when it is scratched.

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