S: (n) Neurospora, genus 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)
S: (n) ergot, Claviceps purpurea (a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
S: (n) Plasmodiophora, genus Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
S: (n) Cladonia, genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
S: (n) Parmelia, genus Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Lactarius, genus 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)
S: (n) Pleurotus, genus Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)
S: (n) Pholiota, genus Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)
S: (n) Russula, genus 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)
S: (n) genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Pellicularia, genus Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Tricholoma, genus Tricholoma (agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible)
S: (n) Pluteus, genus 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)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Gyromitra sphaerospora, round-spored gyromitra (a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains)
S: (n) Gyromitra esculenta, brain mushroom, beefsteak morel (a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown)
S: (n) Neurospora, genus 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)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
S: (n) Plasmodiophora, genus Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
S: (n) Cladonia, genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
S: (n) Parmelia, genus Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Lactarius, genus 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)
S: (n) Pleurotus, genus Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)
S: (n) Pholiota, genus Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)
S: (n) Russula, genus 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)
S: (n) genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Pellicularia, genus Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Tricholoma, genus Tricholoma (agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible)
S: (n) Pluteus, genus 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)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Discina (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body and ornamented spores)
S: (n) genus Gyromitra (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown)
S: (n) Phallales, order Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
S: (n) Macowanites, genus Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)
S: (n) Gastroboletus, genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Boletus, genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)
S: (n) Cronartium, genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)
S: (n) Puccinia, genus Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)
S: (n) Gymnosporangium, genus 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)
S: (n) Septobasidium, genus Septobasidium (type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium)
S: (n) Cortinarius, genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)
S: (n) Penicillium, genus Penicillium (genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin)
S: (n) Tubercularia, genus Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Rhizoctinia, form 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)
S: (n) Armillaria, genus Armillaria (genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Phallales, order Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
S: (n) Macowanites, genus Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)
S: (n) Gastroboletus, genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Boletus, genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)
S: (n) Cronartium, genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)
S: (n) Puccinia, genus Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)
S: (n) Gymnosporangium, genus 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)
S: (n) Septobasidium, genus Septobasidium (type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium)
S: (n) Cortinarius, genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)
S: (n) Penicillium, genus Penicillium (genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin)
S: (n) fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
S: (n) ergot, Claviceps purpurea (a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid)
S: (n) 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))
S: (n) white rust (fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia)
S: (n) truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)
S: (n) coral fungus (any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral)
S: (n) scaly lentinus, Lentinus lepideus (a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice)
S: (n) sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)
S: (n) ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)
S: (n) yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)
S: (n) Wynnea americana (a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange)
S: (n) Wynnea sparassoides (a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower)
S: (n) stinkhorn, carrion fungus (any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales) "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"
S: (n) puffball, true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)
S: (n) earthstar (any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star)
S: (n) Radiigera fuscogleba (a fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up; the spore mass is brown at maturity with a column of sterile tissue extending up into it)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Gastrocybe lateritia (a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses)
S: (n) Macowanites americanus (a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap)
S: (n) Tubercularia, genus Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) genus Rhizoctinia, form 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)
S: (n) Armillaria, genus Armillaria (genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Fungi, kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdom (the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants)