Meanings
adjectivephragmobasidiate (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyBeing or containing a phragmobasidium.
This order comprises the Hymenomycetes of Fries (1874) with the exclusion of phragmobasidiate fungi, Dacrymycetales, Tulasnellales, Agaricales, and the biophilous parasitic fungi such as the Exobasidiales and Brachybasidiales.
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), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 328
Origin
From phragmobasidi(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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