ARUNDO
\aɹˈʌndə͡ʊ], \aɹˈʌndəʊ], \a_ɹ_ˈʌ_n_d_əʊ]\
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[L.] (Bot.) A gen. of grasses ; tall, growing in wet places, and with hard, almost woody, culm. A. donax of S. Europe, the tallest of European grasses ; six to twelve feet high ; with thick, hollow, woody culms, used for reeds of clarionets, fishing-rods, etc.
By Henry Percy Smith
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).