basidiomycetous fungi

Definitions of basidiomycetous fungi

1. noun

   any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
   synonyms: basidiomycete

   types:

   mushroom

   any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

   agaric

   a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

   gill fungus

   a basidiomycete with gills

   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

   mushroom

   mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)

   mushroom

   common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

   toadstool

   common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)

   Agaricus arvensis, horse mushroom

   coarse edible mushroom with a hollow stem and a broad white cap

   Agaricus campestris, field mushroom, meadow mushroom

   common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce

   Amanita caesarea, Caesar's agaric, royal agaric

   widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric

   Amanita mappa, false deathcap

   agaric often confused with the death cup

   Amanita muscaria, fly agaric

   poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills

   Amanita phalloides, death angel, death cap, death cup, destroying angel

   extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills

   Amanita rubescens, blusher, blushing mushroom

   yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched

   Amanita verna, destroying angel

   fungus similar to Amanita phalloides

   Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle, chanterelle

   widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma

   Cantharellus floccosus, floccose chanterelle

   a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet

   Cantharellus clavatus, pig's ears

   an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound

   Cantharellus cinnabarinus, cinnabar chanterelle

   mushroom with a distinctive pink to vermillion fruiting body

   Omphalotus illudens, jack-a-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern fungus

   a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent

   Coprinus atramentarius, inky cap, inky-cap mushroom

   having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured

   Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane, shaggymane mushroom

   common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores

   Lactarius delicioso, milkcap

   edible mushroom

   Marasmius oreades, fairy-ring mushroom

   mushroom that grows in a fairy ring

   Pleurotus ostreatus, oyster agaric, oyster fungus, oyster mushroom

   edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood

   Pleurotus phosphoreus, olive-tree agaric

   red luminescent mushroom of Europe

   Pholiota astragalina

   a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk

   Pholiota aurea, golden pholiota

   a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast

   Pholiota destruens

   a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard

   Pholiota flammans

   a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk

   Pholiota flavida

   a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground; cap is brownish orange with a surface that is smooth and slightly sticky; whitish gills and a cylindrical brown stalk

   Pholiota nameko, nameko, viscid mushroom

   one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan

   Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa

   a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks

   Pholiota squarrosa, scaly pholiota

   a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age

   Pholiota squarrosoides

   a pale buff fungus with tawny scales

   Stropharia ambigua

   a gilled fungus with a long stalk and a yellow slimy cap from which fragments of the broken veil hang; gills are initially white but become dark brown as spores are released

   Stropharia hornemannii

   a gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring

   Stropharia rugoso-annulata

   a large gilled fungus with a broad cap and a long stalk; the cap is dark brown; the white gills turn dark purplish brown with age; edible and choice

   Entoloma lividum, Entoloma sinuatum

   a deadly poisonous agaric; a large cap that is first white (livid or lead-colored) and then turns yellowish or tan

   Entoloma aprile

   an agaric with a dark brown conical cap; fruits in early spring

   Chlorophyllum molybdites

   a poisonous agaric with a fibrillose cap and brown scales on a white ground color; cap can reach a diameter of 30 cm; often forms `fairy rings'

   lepiota

   any fungus of the genus Lepiota

   Lepiota procera, parasol mushroom

   edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn

   Clitocybe nuda, blewits

   edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap

   Tricholoma populinum, sandy mushroom

   an edible agaric that fruits in great clusters (especially in sandy soil under cottonwood trees)

   Tricholoma pessundatum

   a mildly poisonous agaric with a viscid reddish brown cap and white gills and stalk

   Tricholoma sejunctum

   an agaric with a cap that is coated with dark fibrils in the center and has yellowish margins

   Tricholoma flavovirens, man-on-a-horse

   an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center

   Tricholoma venenata

   a poisonous white agaric

   Tricholoma pardinum

   a poisonous agaric having a pale cap with fine grey fibrils

   Tricholoma vaccinum

   an agaric with a cap that is densely covered with reddish fibrils and pale gills and stalk

   Tricholoma aurantium

   an orange tan agaric whose gills become brown by maturity; has a strong odor and taste

   Pluteus aurantiorugosus

   an agaric with a brilliant scarlet cap and a slender stalk

   Pluteus magnus, sawdust mushroom

   an edible agaric found in piles of hardwood sawdust; the caps are black and coarsely wrinkled

   Pluteus cervinus, deer mushroom

   a small edible agaric with a slender stalk; usually found on rotting hardwoods

   Chinese mushroom, Volvariella volvacea, straw mushroom

   small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem; an expensive delicacy in China and other Asian countries where it is grown commercially

   Volvariella bombycina

   a mushroom with a dry yellowish to white fibrillose cap

   Clitocybe clavipes

   an agaric with a flat cap that is greyish or yellowish brown with pallid gills and a stalk that bulges toward the base

   Clitocybe dealbata

   a small poisonous agaric; has a dry white cap with crowded gills and a short stalk

   Clitocybe inornata

   a fungus with a cap that is creamy grey when young and turns brown with age and a whitish stalk that stains yellow when handled

   Clitocybe robusta, Clytocybe alba

   a large white agaric; edible but not palatable

   Clitocybe irina, Lepista irina, Tricholoma irinum

   an edible agaric with large silky white caps and thick stalks

   Clitocybe subconnexa

   an edible white agaric that fruits in dense clusters; the gills are narrow and crowded and the stalk is fleshy and unpolished

   Flammulina velutipes, winter mushroom

   an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are; has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills; often occur in clusters

   morel

   any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap

   bracket fungus, shelf fungus

   a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures

   Albatrellus dispansus

   a rare fungus having a large (up to 14 inches wide) yellow fruiting body with multiple individual caps and a broad central stalk and a fragrant odor

   Albatrellus ovinus, sheep polypore

   a fungus with a whitish often circular cap and a white pore surface and small pores and a white central stalk; found under conifers; edible but not popular

   Neolentinus ponderosus

   a gilled polypore with a large cap (up to 15 inches in diameter) and a broad stalk; edible when young and tender

   Nigroporus vinosus

   a woody pore fungus with a dark brown to red brown cap and spore surface and small pores

   Oligoporus leucospongia

   a pore fungus with a whitish cottony soft cap found on conifer logs in forests at high elevation in the western United States and adjacent Canada

   Polyporus tenuiculus

   a fungus with a whitish kidney-shaped cap and elongated pores; causes white rot in dead hardwoods

   Polyporus squamosus, scaly polypore

   a fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly black in maturity; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

   Fistulina hepatica, beefsteak fungus

   a popular edible fungus with a cap the color of liver or raw meat; abundant in southeastern United States

   waxycap

   any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance

   Cortinarius armillatus

   a fungus with large tawny caps and pale cinnamon gills and a red band of veil around the stalk; usually found near birch trees

   Cortinarius atkinsonianus

   an edible fungus with a slimy viscid cap that is initially yellow but turns olive and then tawny; flesh is lavender

   Cortinarius corrugatus

   a fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap; the stalk has a basal bulb that diminishes as the stalk elongates; the gills are dark violet at first but soon turn brown

   Cortinarius gentilis

   a poisonous fungus with a bright yellow brown cap and a long cinnamon colored stalk

   Cortinarius mutabilis, purple-staining Cortinarius

   a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface; close violet gills; all parts stain dark purple when bruised

   Cortinarius semisanguineus

   a fungus with a dry brown cap and rusty red gills and a yellowish stalk

   Cortinarius subfoetidus

   a fungus with a sticky lavender cap and stalk that whitish above and covered with a silky lavender sheath

   Cortinarius violaceus

   a fungus that is violet overall with a squamulose cap

   Gymnopilus spectabilis

   a fungus with a brownish orange fruiting body and a ring near the top of the stalk; the taste is bitter and the flesh contains psilocybin and psilocin

   Gymnopilus validipes

   a poisonous fungus with a dry cap and a cortina that does not leave much of a ring on the robust stalk

   Gymnopilus ventricosus

   a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest; has a very thick stalk and the cortina leaves a ring high up on the stalk

   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

   Armillaria caligata, booted armillaria

   fungus with a brown cap and white gills and a membranous ring halfway up the stalk

   Armillaria ponderosa, white matsutake

   a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest

   Armillaria zelleri

   a large fungus with viscid cap that dries and turns brown with age; gills are off-white

   Armillariella mellea, honey fungus, honey mushroom

   a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw

   type of:

   fungus

   an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia