| fungus gnat | mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation |
fungus gnat sciara
sciarid | minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings |
gill
branchia | respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water |
| external gill | occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians |
gill slit
branchial cleft
gill cleft | one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes |
gill arch
branchial arch
gill bar | one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians |
| gill net | a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills |
beard
face fungus
whiskers | the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face |
| fungus family | includes lichen families |
| fungus genus | includes lichen genera |
| fungus order | the order of fungi |
ground ivy
alehoof
field balm gill-over-the-ground
runaway robin
Glechoma hederaceae
Nepeta hederaceae | trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets, naturalized in North America, sometimes placed in genus Nepeta |
Dutch elm fungus
Ceratostomella ulmi | fungus causing Dutch elm disease |
black root rot fungus
Xylaria mali | fungus causing black root rot in apples |
leak fungus
ring rot fungus
Rhizopus stolonifer | fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes |
potato wart fungus
Synchytrium endobioticum | fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers |
white fungus
Saprolegnia ferax | a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins) |
blue mold fungus
Peronospora tabacina | fungus causing a serious disease in tobacco plants characterized by bluish-grey mildew on undersides of leaves |
damping off fungus
Pythium debaryanum | fungus causing damping off disease in seedlings |
clubroot fungus
Plasmodiophora brassicae | a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants |
| club fungus | a club-shaped coral fungus |
| coral fungus | any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral |
| tooth fungus | a fungus of the family Hydnaceae |
Fungi
kingdom Fungi
fungus kingdom | the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools, distinct from the green plants |
| fungus | an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter, ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia |
| true fungus | any of numerous fungi of the division Eumycota |
Deuteromycota
subdivision Deuteromycota
Deuteromycotina
Fungi imperfecti
subdivision Deuteromycotina | large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known |
basidiomycete
basidiomycetous fungi | any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota |
| agaric | a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
royal agaric
Caesar's agaric
Amanita caesarea | widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric |
fly agaric
Amanita muscaria | poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills |
jack-o-lantern fungus
jack-o-lantern
jack-a-lantern
Omphalotus illudens | a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks, the gills are luminescent |
oyster mushroom
oyster fungus
oyster agaric
Pleurotus ostreatus | edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood |
olive-tree agaric
Pleurotus phosphoreus | red luminescent mushroom of Europe |
Stropharia
genus Stropharia
ring-stalked fungus | genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus, here placed in its own family Strophariaceae |
| gill fungus | a basidiomycete with gills |
gill
lamella | any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus |
pink disease fungus
Corticium salmonicolor | fungus causing pink disease in citrus and coffee and rubber trees etc |
bottom rot fungus
Corticium solani | fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce |
potato fungus
Pellicularia filamentosa
Rhizoctinia solani | fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers |
coffee fungus
Pellicularia koleroga | fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants |
| sac fungus | any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus |
ascomycete
ascomycetous fungus | any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus |
brown root rot fungus
Thielavia basicola | fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families |
discomycete
cup fungus | any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes |
Aleuria aurantia
orange peel fungus | a discomycete with bright orange cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting bodies and pale orange exteriors |
Urnula craterium
urn fungus | an urn-shaped discomycete with a nearly black interior |
stinkhorn
carrion fungus | any of various ill-smelling brownapped fungi of the order Phallales, the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet |
| bird's-nest fungus | any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores |
polypore
pore fungus
pore mushroom | woody pore fungi, any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores, the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent |