: an order of basidiomycetous fungi (subclass Homobasidiomycetes) having closed subterranean or epigeous and sessile or stalked sporocarps with a simple or several-layered peridium surrounding an unchambered or indistinctly chambered gleba compare lycoperdales
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Sclerodermat-, Scleroderma + -ales