hymenophore
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of hymenophore
from hymenium + -phore
Example Sentences
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The hymenophore is even, tubes not easily separable from it, large and equal.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The distinctive features of this genus are the involute margin and the soft, tough, and decurrent gills which are easily separable from the hymenophore.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
This genus grows on wood, at first resupinate, expanded; the hymenophore springing from a mucous mycelium.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The pileus is membranaceous, yellow, becoming moist; gills moist but not deliquescing, finally losing their color and becoming powdery; stem hollow and confluent with the hymenophore.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Tubes somewhat tenacious, not easily separable from the hymenophore and from each other, adnate or subdecurrent, yellowish.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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