| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
bracket fungus
shelf fungus | a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures |
beefsteak fungus
Fistulina hepatica | a popular edible fungus with a cap the color of liver or raw meat, abundant in southeastern United States |
| jelly fungus | any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh |
Jew's-ear
Jew's-ears
ear fungus
Auricularia auricula | widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood |
rust
rust fungus | any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants |
flax rust
flax rust fungus
Melampsora lini | fungus causing flax rust |
smut
smut fungus | any fungus of the order Ustilaginales |
| flag smut fungus | a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores |
felt fungus
Septobasidium pseudopedicellatum | fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States |
yellow spot fungus
Cercospora kopkei | fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia) |
green smut fungus
Ustilaginoidea virens | fungus causing green smut in rice |
| shoestring fungus | any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples |
honey mushroom
honey fungus
Armillariella mellea | a honeyolored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall, do not eat raw |