A genus of imperfect fungi comprising plant pathogens which attack the roots or lower stem parts of various hosts, and are responsible for a number…

Of or relating to the (former) order or class Discomycetes of fungi; resembling fungi of this group, esp. in possessing a discocarp; (of lichens)…

resembling a hymenomycete.

Of or belonging to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi; of, relating to, or of the nature of a pyrenomycete.

Of, belonging to, or relating to the Gasteromycetes, one of the orders of Fungi.

belonging to or having the nature of a hymenomycete.

Of or relating to the former class Phycomycetes of lower fungi; of the nature of a phycomycete.

Of or belonging to the Hyphomycetes, a group of fungi consisting simply of hyphæ (Martius Flora Crypt. Erlang. 1817).

With plural agreement. A class of saprophytic and parasitic fungi in which sexual reproduction is by fusion of usually similar gametangia to produce…