fungus family

/ˌfʌŋgəs ˌfæm(ə)li/

Definitions of fungus family

1. noun

   includes lichen families
   types:

   Erysiphaceae, family Erysiphaceae

   family of fungi parasitic mostly on leaves; includes powdery mildews

   Sphaeriaceae, family Sphaeriaceae

   parasitic fungi having globose and sometimes necked or beaked perithecia

   Ceratostomataceae, family Ceratostomataceae

   fungi having carbonous perithecia with long necks

   Hypocreaceae, family Hypocreaceae

   family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales

   Xylariaceae, family Xylariaceae

   family of fungi characterized by dark brown to black spores

   Helotiaceae, family Helotiaceae

   a fungus family of order Helotiales

   Sclerotiniaceae, family Sclerotiniaceae

   a fungus family of order Helotiales

   Sclerodermataceae, family Sclerodermataceae

   a family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium; includes earthballs

   Tulostomaceae, Tulostomataceae, family Tulostomaceae, family Tulostomataceae

   stalked puffballs

   Rhizopogonaceae, family Rhizopogonaceae

   a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores

   Mucoraceae, family Mucoraceae

   large family of chiefly saprophytic fungi that includes many common molds destructive to food products

   Entomophthoraceae, family Entomophthoraceae

   mostly parasitic lower fungi that typically develop in the bodies of insects

   Chytridiaceae, family Chytridiaceae

   a family of aquatic fungi of order Chytridiales

   Blastodiaceae, family Blastodiaceae

   a family of saprobic fungi of order Blastocladiales

   Synchytriaceae, family Synchytriaceae

   a fungus family of order Chytridiales

   Peronosporaceae, family Peronosporaceae

   parasitic fungi: downy mildews

   Albuginaceae, family Albuginaceae

   fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants

   Pythiaceae, family Pythiaceae

   fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores

   Plasmodiophoraceae, family Plasmodiophoraceae

   family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants

   Tuberaceae, family Tuberaceae

   family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple

   Clavariaceae, family Clavariaceae

   fleshy fungi: coral fungi

   Hydnaceae, family Hydnaceae

   tooth fungi

   Lecanoraceae, family Lecanoraceae

   a fungus family of the division Lichenes

   Roccellaceae, family Roccellaceae

   a fungus family of division Lichenes

   Pertusariaceae, family Pertusariaceae

   a fungus family of division Lichenes

   Usneaceae, family Usneaceae

   fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria

   Cladoniaceae, family Cladoniaceae

   a family of lichens

   Parmeliaceae, family Parmeliaceae

   a family of lichens

   Agaricaceae, family Agaricaceae

   large family including many familiar mushrooms

   Coprinaceae, family Coprinaceae

   used in some classifications for the genus Coprinus

   Russulaceae, family Russulaceae

   used in some classification systems for the genus Russula

   Strophariaceae, family Strophariaceae

   sometimes included in family Agaricaceae

   Entolomataceae, family Entolomataceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales

   Lepiotaceae, family Lepiotaceae

   a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk

   Thelephoraceae, family Thelephoraceae

   fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores

   Tricholomataceae, family Tricholomataceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales

   Volvariaceae, family Volvariaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales

   Pluteaceae, family Pluteaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales

   Saccharomycetaceae, family Saccharomycetaceae

   family of fungi comprising the typical yeasts: reproduce by budding and ferment carbohydrates

   Schizosaccharomycetaceae, family Schizosaccharomycetaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to order Endomycetales

   Aspergillaceae, family Aspergillaceae

   family of fungi including some common molds

   Pezizaceae, family Pezizaceae

   large family comprising many typical cup fungi

   Morchellaceae, family Morchellaceae

   a family of edible fungi including the true morels

   Sarcoscyphaceae, family Sarcoscyphaceae

   family of fungi belonging to the order Pezizales

   Helvellaceae, family Helvellaceae

   family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous

   Phallaceae, family Phallaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns

   Calostomataceae, family Calostomataceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Tulostomatales

   Clathraceae, family Clathraceae

   family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns

   Lycoperdaceae, family Lycoperdaceae

   a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs

   Geastraceae, family Geastraceae

   a family of earthstar fungi belonging to the order Lycoperdales

   Nidulariaceae, family Nidulariaceae

   bird's-nest fungi

   Sphaerobolaceae, family Sphaerobolaceae

   monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity

   Secotiaceae, family Secotiaceae

   a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi

   Polyporaceae, family Polyporaceae

   fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees

   Fistulinaceae, family Fistulinaceae

   a family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other

   Boletaceae, family Boletaceae

   family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other

   Tremellaceae, family Tremellaceae

   a family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally

   Auriculariaceae, family Auriculariaceae

   fungi having gelatinous sporophores

   Dacrymycetaceae, family Dacrymycetaceae

   a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa

   Melampsoraceae, family Melampsoraceae

   rust fungi

   Pucciniaceae, family Pucciniaceae

   large important family of rust fungi

   Ustilaginaceae, family Ustilaginaceae

   a fungus family of loose smuts

   Tilletiaceae, family Tilletiaceae

   a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster

   Septobasidiaceae, family Septobasidiaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota

   Hygrophoraceae, family Hygrophoraceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance

   Cortinariaceae, family Cortinariaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales

   Moniliaceae, family Moniliaceae

   family of imperfect fungi having white or brightly colored hyphae and spores that are produced directly on the mycelium and not aggregated in fruiting bodies

   Dematiaceae, family Dematiaceae

   family of imperfect mushrooms having dark-colored hyphae or conidia

   Tuberculariaceae, family Tuberculariaceae

   large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi

   Geoglossaceae, family Geoglossaceae

   a family of fungi belonging to the order Helotiales

   mushroom pimple

   any of various fungi of the family Hypocreaceae

   type of:

   family

   (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera