FUNGUS GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fungus genus mean? 

• FUNGUS GENUS (noun)
  The noun FUNGUS GENUS has 1 sense:

1. includes lichen genera

  Familiarity information: FUNGUS GENUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNGUS GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Includes lichen genera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fungus genus" is a kind of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fungus genus"):

Erysiphe; genus Erysiphe (genus of powdery mildews)

genus Neurospora; Neurospora (genus of fungi with black perithecia used extensively in genetic research; includes some forms with orange spore masses that cause severe damage in bakeries)

Ceratostomella; genus Ceratostomella (genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores)

Claviceps; genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)

genus Xylaria; Xylaria (type genus of Xylariaceae; fungi with perithecia in the upper part of erect black woody stromata)

genus Rosellinia; Rosellinia (fungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores)

genus Helotium; Helotium (type genus of the Helotiaceae)

genus Sclerotinia (large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens)

genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)

genus Tulestoma; genus Tulostoma; Tulestoma; Tulostoma (type genus of the Tulostomaceae)

genus Rhizopogon; Rhizopogon (a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers)

genus Truncocolumella; Truncocolumella (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Rhizopogonaceae)

genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)

genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)

Entomophthora; genus Entomophthora (type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects)

genus Dictostylium (genus of slime molds that grow on dung and decaying vegetation)

Blastocladia; genus Blastocladia (a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae)

genus Synchytrium; Synchytrium (simple parasitic fungi including pond scum parasites)

genus Saprolegnia; Saprolegnia (aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains)

genus Peronospora; Peronospora (genus of destructive downy mildews)

Albugo; genus Albugo (type genus of the Albuginaceae; fungi causing white rusts)

genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)

genus Phytophthora; Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)

genus Plasmodiophora; Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)

genus Tuber; Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)

genus Hydnum; Hydnum (type genus of Hydnaceae)

genus Lecanora (type genus of Lecanoraceae; crustaceous lichens)

genus Roccella (chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens)

genus Pertusaria; Pertusaria (crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus)

genus Usnea; Usnea (widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus)

Evernia; genus Evernia (lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus)

genus Ramalina; Ramalina (shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus)

Alectoria; genus Alectoria (lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus)

Cladonia; genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)

genus Parmelia; Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)

Cetraria; genus Cetraria (foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes)

Agaricus; genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)

genus Lentinus; Lentinus (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae)

Amanita; genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)

Cantharellus; genus Cantharellus (a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles)

genus Omphalotus; Omphalotus (a genus of fungi with a depressed disc in the cap)

Coprinus; genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)

genus Lactarius; Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)

genus Marasmius; Marasmius (chiefly small mushrooms with white spores)

genus Pleurotus; Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)

genus Pholiota; Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)

genus Russula; Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)

genus Stropharia; ring-stalked fungus; Stropharia (genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae)

Entoloma; genus Entoloma (agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous))

genus Chlorophyllum (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Lepiotaceae)

genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)

Corticium; genus Corticium (genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)

genus Pellicularia; Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)

genus Tricholoma; Tricholoma (agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible)

genus Volvaria; Volvaria (agarics having pink spores and a distinct volva)

genus Pluteus; Pluteus; roof mushroom (a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer)

genus Volvariella; Volvariella (an important genus of mushrooms in the Orient)

Clitocybe; genus Clitocybe (a genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills)

Flammulina; genus Flammulina (a genus of agarics)

genus Saccharomyces; Saccharomyces (single-celled yeasts that reproduce asexually by budding; used to ferment carbohydrates)

genus Schizosaccharomyces; Schizosaccharomyces (type and only genus of Schizosaccharomycetaceae; comprises the fission yeasts)

Eurotium; genus Eurotium (a genus of fungi belonging to the order Eurotiales)

Aspergillus; genus Aspergillus (genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals)

genus Thielavia; Thielavia (genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot)

genus Peziza; Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)

genus Plectania; Plectania (genus of fungi in the family Pezizaceae closely related to and often included in genus Peziza)

genus Morchella; Morchella (genus of edible fungi: morel)

genus Wynnea; Wynnea (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Sarcoscyphaceae)

genus Helvella (type genus of the Helvellaceae)

genus Discina (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body and ornamented spores)

genus Gyromitra (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown)

order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)

genus Phallus; Phallus (genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem)

Dictyophera; genus Dictyophera (closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus)

genus Mutinus; Mutinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Phallaceae)

Clathrus; genus Clathrus (type genus of the Clathraceae)

genus Pseudocolus; Pseudocolus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae)

genus Lycoperdon; Lycoperdon (genus of fungi whose fruiting body tapers toward a base consisting of spongy mycelium)

Calvatia; genus Calvatia (genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores)

Geastrum; genus Geastrum (type genus of Geastraceae; fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments)

genus Radiigera; Radiigera (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Geastraceae)

Astreus; genus Astreus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Geastraceae)

genus Nidularia; Nidularia (type genus of the Nidulariaceae)

Gastrocybe; genus Gastrocybe (a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae)

genus Macowanites; Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)

Gastroboletus; genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)

Albatrellus; genus Albatrellus; genus Neolentinus; Neolentinus; genus Nigroporus; Nigroporus; genus Oligoporus; Oligoporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)

genus Polyporus; Polyporus (type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers)

Fistulina; genus Fistulina (fungi having each pore separate though crowded)

Fomes; genus Fomes (genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees)

Boletus; genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)

Fuscoboletinus; genus Fuscoboletinus; genus Leccinum; Leccinum; genus Phylloporus; Phylloporus; genus Suillus; Suillus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)

genus Strobilomyces; Strobilomyces (fungi similar to Boletus but with a shaggy scaly cap)

Boletellus; genus Boletellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)

genus Tremella; Tremella (fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain)

Auricularia; genus Auricularia (type genus of the Auriculariaceae)

Dacrymyces; genus Dacrymyces (type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa)

genus Melampsora; Melampsora (rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer)

Cronartium; genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)

genus Puccinia; Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)

genus Gymnosporangium; Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)

genus Ustilago; Ustilago (type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts)

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

genus Urocystis; Urocystis (a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

genus Septobasidium; Septobasidium (type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium)

genus Hygrocybe; Hygrocybe; genus Hygrophorus; Hygrophorus; genus Hygrotrama; Hygrotrama; genus Neohygrophorus; Neohygrophorus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)

Cortinarius; genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))

genus Gymnopilus; Gymnopilus (a genus of fungus characterized by the orange color of the spore deposit)

genus Verticillium (genus of imperfect fungi having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets; cause wilt diseases)

genus Trichophyton; Trichophyton (a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm and favus)

genus Microsporum; Microsporum (a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm)

genus Monilia (genus of parasitic yeastlike imperfect fungi having spherical or oval conidia in branched chains; some species usually placed in other genera especially genus Candida)

genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)

Cercosporella; genus Cercosporella (form genus of imperfect fungi lacking pigment in the spores and conidiophores)

genus Penicillium; Penicillium (genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin)

Blastomyces; genus Blastomyces (genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi)

Cercospora; genus Cercospora (form genus of imperfect fungi that are leaf parasites with long slender spores)

genus Ustilaginoidea; Ustilaginoidea (genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut)

genus Tubercularia; Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)

genus Fusarium (a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness)

form genus Rhizoctinia; genus Rhizoctinia (form genus of imperfect fungi some species of which are now placed in genera Pellicularia and Corticium because their perfect stages have been found)

genus Ozonium; Ozonium (form genus of imperfect fungi)

genus Sclerotium; Sclerotium (form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants)

genus Geoglossum; Geoglossum (type genus of the Geoglossaceae comprising the earthtongues)

Armillaria; genus Armillaria (genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot)

Armillariella; genus Armillariella (a honey-colored diminutive form of genus Armillaria; grows in clusters; edible (when cooked) but most attention has been on how to get rid of it)

Holonyms ("fungus genus" is a member of...):

Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi (the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants)