fungus

1. An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter;
   Ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia (synset 113013628)
   associated with:

   • immune reaction, immune response, immunologic response - a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
   • squamule - a minute scale
   is a type of: being, organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
   subtypes:

   • ceratostomella ulmi, dutch elm fungus - fungus causing Dutch elm disease
   • claviceps purpurea, ergot - 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
   • black root rot fungus, xylaria mali - fungus causing black root rot in apples
   • dead-man's-fingers, dead-men's-fingers, xylaria polymorpha - the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria
   • sclerotinia - any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants
   • earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball - any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
   • stalked puffball - mushroom of the genus Tulostoma that resembles a puffball
   • false truffle - any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle
   • slime mold, slime mould - a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists
   • pond-scum parasite - an aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum
   • potato wart fungus, synchytrium endobioticum - fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers
   • saprolegnia ferax, white fungus - 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)
   • white rust - fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia
   • pythium - any fungus of the genus Pythium
   • phytophthora citrophthora - causes brown rot gummosis in citrus fruits
   • phytophthora infestans - fungus causing late blight in solanaceous plants especially tomatoes and potatoes
   • clubroot fungus, plasmodiophora brassicae - a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants
   • earth-ball, earthnut, truffle - any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
   • 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
   • lichen - any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.
   • true fungus - any of numerous fungi of the division Eumycota
   • basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi - any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
   • chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, lentinus edodes, oriental black mushroom, shiitake, shiitake mushroom - edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
   • lentinus lepideus, scaly lentinus - a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice
   • corticium salmonicolor, pink disease fungus - fungus causing pink disease in citrus and coffee and rubber trees etc
   • bottom rot fungus, corticium solani - fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce
   • pellicularia filamentosa, potato fungus, 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
   • volvaria bombycina - a parasite on various trees
   • 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
   • yeast - any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
   • aspergillus fumigatus - a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man
   • brown root rot fungus, thielavia basicola - fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families
   • 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
   • wynnea sparassoides - a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower
   • false morel - a fungus of the family Helvellaceae
   • lorchel - a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae
   • gyromitra - any fungus of the genus Gyromitra
   • gasteromycete, gastromycete - any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes
   • carrion fungus, stinkhorn - any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
   • puffball, true puffball - any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
   • earthstar - any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star
   • 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
   • 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
   • 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
   • 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
   • gastroboletus scabrosus - a dingy yellow brown fungus with a rough stalk that superficially resembles a bolete
   • gastroboletus turbinatus - a fungus with a cap that can vary from red to dark brown; superficially resembles a bolete
   • grifola frondosa, hen of the woods, hen-of-the-woods, polyporus frondosus - large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees
   • agaric, fomes igniarius - fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses
   • bolete - any fungus of the family Boletaceae
   • jelly fungus - any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh
   • rust, rust fungus - any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
   • smut, smut fungus - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
   • felt fungus, septobasidium pseudopedicellatum - fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States
   • mold, mould - a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
   • mildew - a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter
   • verticillium - a fungus of the genus Verticillium
   • monilia - any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia
   • candida - any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida
   • blastomycete - any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals
   • cercospora kopkei, yellow spot fungus - fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)
   • green smut fungus, ustilaginoidea virens - fungus causing green smut in rice
   • dry rot - a fungus causing dry rot
   • rhizoctinia - any fungus now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia
   • earth-tongue, earthtongue - any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum
   belongs to: fungi, fungus kingdom, kingdom fungi - the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
   has:

   • cap, pileus - a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
   • volva - cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi
   • hymenium - spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia
   • mycelium - the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae

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