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- adjective mycology Of or relating to the arrangement of the
hymenium of some mushroom species in the genera Coprinus, Coprinopsis, and Coprinellus. Theintermittent maturation andshedding ofspores in radial bands beginning from the periphery of eachgill ,deliquescing from the bottom and advancing upwards.
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From in- + aequi- + hymenium + -iferous. Coined by mycologist Arthur Henry Reginald Buller in 1909.
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