#fungus_genus includes lichen genera
supertype: #genus__genu (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
member of: #kingdom_Fungi
subtype: #genus_Erysiphe__Erysiphe genus of powdery mildews
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Ceratostomella__Ceratostomella genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores
subtype: #genus_Claviceps__Claviceps fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses
subtype: #genus_Xylaria__Xylaria type genus of Xylariaceae; fungi with perithecia in the upper part of erect black woody stromata
subtype: #genus_Rosellinia__Rosellinia fungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores
subtype: #genus_Helotium__Helotium type genus of the Helotiaceae
subtype: #genus_Sclerotinia large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens
subtype: #genus_Scleroderma__Scleroderma genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles
subtype: #genus_Tulostoma__Tulostoma__Tulestoma__genus_Tulestoma type genus of the Tulostomaceae
subtype: #genus_Rhizopogon__Rhizopogon a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers
subtype: #genus_Truncocolumella__Truncocolumella a genus of fungi belonging to the family Rhizopogonaceae
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Rhizopus genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids
subtype: #genus_Entomophthora__Entomophthora type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects
subtype: #genus_Dictostylium genus of slime molds that grow on dung and decaying vegetation
subtype: #genus_Blastocladia__Blastocladia a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae
subtype: #genus_Synchytrium__Synchytrium simple parasitic fungi including pond scum parasites
subtype: #genus_Saprolegnia__Saprolegnia aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains
subtype: #genus_Peronospora__Peronospora genus of destructive downy mildews
subtype: #genus_Albugo__Albugo type genus of the Albuginaceae; fungi causing white rusts
subtype: #genus_Pythium destructive root-parasitic fungi
subtype: #genus_Phytophthora__Phytophthora destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants
subtype: #genus_Plasmodiophora__Plasmodiophora type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds
subtype: #genus_Tuber__Tuber type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles
subtype: #genus_Hydnum__Hydnum type genus of Hydnaceae
subtype: #genus_Lecanora type genus of Lecanoraceae; crustaceous lichens
subtype: #genus_Roccella chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens
subtype: #genus_Pertusaria__Pertusaria crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus
subtype: #genus_Usnea__Usnea widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus
subtype: #genus_Evernia__Evernia lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus
subtype: #genus_Ramalina__Ramalina shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus
subtype: #genus_Alectoria__Alectoria lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus
subtype: #genus_Cladonia__Cladonia type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia
subtype: #genus_Parmelia__Parmelia type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens
subtype: #genus_Cetraria__Cetraria foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes
subtype: #genus_Agaricus__Agaricus type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species
subtype: #genus_Lentinus__Lentinus a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae
subtype: #genus_Amanita__Amanita genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions
subtype: #slime_mushroom__slimemushroom a mushroom of the genus Amanita
subtype: #white_slime_mushroom__whiteslimemushroom a type of slime mushroom
subtype: #Fischer's_slime_mushroom a type of slime mushroom
subtype: #genus_Cantharellus__Cantharellus a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles
subtype: #genus_Omphalotus__Omphalotus a genus of mushrooms with a depressed disc in the cap
subtype: #genus_Coprinus__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
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Marasmius__Marasmius chiefly small mushrooms with white spores
subtype: #genus_Pleurotus__Pleurotus agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan
subtype: #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
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Stropharia__Stropharia__ring-stalked_fungus genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae
subtype: #genus_Entoloma__Entoloma agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous)
subtype: #genus_Chlorophyllum a genus of fungus belonging to the family Lepiotaceae
subtype: #genus_Lepiota agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms
subtype: #genus_Corticium__Corticium genus of fungi having simple smooth-surfaced sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia
subtype: #genus_Pellicularia__Pellicularia genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in the form genus Rhizoctinia
subtype: #genus_Tricholoma__Tricholoma agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible
subtype: #genus_Volvaria__Volvaria agarics having pink spores and a distinct volva
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Volvariella__Volvariella an important genus of mushrooms in the Orient
subtype: #genus_Clitocybe__Clitocybe a genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills
subtype: #genus_Flammulina__Flammulina a genus of agarics
subtype: #genus_Saccharomyces__Saccharomyces single-celled yeasts that reproduce asexually by budding; used to ferment carbohydrates
subtype: #genus_Schizosaccharomyces__Schizosaccharomyces type and only genus of Schizosaccharomycetaceae; comprises the fission yeasts
subtype: #genus_Eurotium__Eurotium a genus of fungi belonging to the order Eurotiales
subtype: #genus_Aspergillus__Aspergillus genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals
subtype: #genus_Thielavia__Thielavia genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot
subtype: #genus_Peziza__Peziza type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus
subtype: #genus_Plectania__Plectania genus of fungi in the family Pezizaceae closely related to and often included in genus Peziza
subtype: #genus_Morchella__Morchella genus of edible fungi: morel
subtype: #genus_Wynnea__Wynnea a genus of fungi belonging to the family Sarcoscyphaceae
subtype: #genus_Helvella type genus of the Helvellaceae
subtype: #genus_Discina a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body and ornamented spores
subtype: #genus_Gyromitra a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown
subtype: #order_Phallales__Phallales order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes
subtype: #genus_Phallus__Phallus genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
subtype: #genus_Dictyophera__Dictyophera closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus
subtype: #genus_Mutinus__Mutinus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Phallaceae
subtype: #genus_Clathrus__Clathrus type genus of the Clathraceae
subtype: #genus_Pseudocolus__Pseudocolus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae
subtype: #genus_Lycoperdon__Lycoperdon genus of fungi whose fruiting body tapers toward a base consisting of spongy mycelium
subtype: #genus_Calvatia__Calvatia genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores
subtype: #genus_Geastrum__Geastrum type genus of Geastraceae; fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments
subtype: #genus_Radiigera__Radiigera a genus of fungus belonging to the family Geastraceae
subtype: #genus_Astreus__Astreus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Geastraceae
subtype: #genus_Nidularia__Nidularia type genus of the Nidulariaceae
subtype: #genus_Gastrocybe__Gastrocybe a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae
subtype: #genus_Macowanites__Macowanites a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely
subtype: #genus_Gastroboletus__Gastroboletus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium
subtype: #genus_Albatrellus__Albatrellus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae
subtype: #genus_Neolentinus__Neolentinus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae
subtype: #genus_Nigroporus__Nigroporus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae
subtype: #genus_Oligoporus__Oligoporus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae
subtype: #genus_Polyporus__Polyporus type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers
subtype: #genus_Fistulina__Fistulina fungi having each pore separate though crowded
subtype: #genus_Fomes__Fomes genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees
subtype: #genus_Boletus__Boletus type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible
subtype: #genus_Fuscoboletinus__Fuscoboletinus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae
subtype: #genus_Leccinum__Leccinum a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae
subtype: #genus_Phylloporus__Phylloporus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae
subtype: #genus_Suillus__Suillus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae
subtype: #genus_Strobilomyces__Strobilomyces fungi similar to Boletus but with a shaggy scaly cap
subtype: #genus_Boletellus__Boletellus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae
subtype: #genus_Tremella__Tremella fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain
subtype: #genus_Auricularia__Auricularia type genus of the Auriculariaceae
subtype: #genus_Dacrymyces__Dacrymyces type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
subtype: #genus_Melampsora__Melampsora rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer
subtype: #genus_Cronartium__Cronartium rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns
subtype: #genus_Puccinia__Puccinia type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants
subtype: #genus_Gymnosporangium__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
subtype: #genus_Ustilago__Ustilago type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts
subtype: #genus_Tilletia__Tilletia a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
subtype: #genus_Urocystis__Urocystis a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
subtype: #genus_Septobasidium__Septobasidium type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium
subtype: #genus_Hygrocybe__Hygrocybe a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae
subtype: #genus_Hygrophorus__Hygrophorus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae
subtype: #genus_Hygrotrama__Hygrotrama a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae
subtype: #genus_Neohygrophorus__Neohygrophorus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae
subtype: #genus_Cortinarius__Cortinarius the largest genus in th Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils)
subtype: #genus_Gymnopilus__Gymnopilus a genus of fungus characterized by the orange color of the spore deposit
subtype: #genus_Verticillium genus of imperfect fungi having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets; cause wilt diseases
subtype: #genus_Trichophyton__Trichophyton a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm
subtype: #genus_Microsporum__Microsporum a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Candida a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae
subtype: #genus_Cercosporella__Cercosporella form genus of imperfect fungi lacking pigment in the spores and conidiophores
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Blastomyces__Blastomyces genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi
subtype: #genus_Cercospora__Cercospora form genus of imperfect fungi that are leaf parasites with long slender spores
subtype: #genus_Ustilaginoidea__Ustilaginoidea genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut
subtype: #genus_Tubercularia__Tubercularia type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants
subtype: #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
subtype: #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
subtype: #genus_Ozonium__Ozonium form genus of imperfect fungi
subtype: #genus_Sclerotium__Sclerotium form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants
subtype: #genus_Geoglossum__Geoglossum type genus of the Geoglossaceae comprising the earthtongues
subtype: #genus_Armillaria__Armillaria genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot
subtype: #genus_Armillariella__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
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