Hymenium

The hymenium (German fruit layer ) is understood as the place where the meiospore formation of tubular and stand mushrooms is located in the macroscopically visible hyphae of the fruiting body . The meiosporic cysts - depending on the group of fungi one speaks of asci or basidia - are arranged in a thin layer in the form of palisades. Often there are sterile end sections of fungal threads between the spore-forming cells.

literature

• Peter Sitte , Elmar Weiler , Joachim W. Kadereit , Andreas Bresinsky , Christian Körner : Textbook of botany for universities . Founded by Eduard Strasburger . 35th edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8274-1010-X .
• Heinrich Dörfelt (Ed.): Lexicon of mycology . Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1989, ISBN 3-437-20413-0 .

Web links

• English page of the Illinois Mycological Association about Hymenium ( memento of October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )