Definition of Genus clitocybe

1. Noun. A genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Clitocybe

genus Cladorhyncus
genus Cladrastis
genus Clangula
genus Clathrus
genus Claviceps
genus Claytonia
genus Cleistes
genus Clematis
genus Cleome
genus Clethra
genus Clethrionomys
genus Clianthus
genus Cliftonia
genus Clinopodium
genus Clintonia
genus Clitocybe
genus Clitoria
genus Clostridium
genus Clupea
genus Clusia
genus Cnemidophorus
genus Cnicus
genus Cnidoscolus
genus Coccothraustes
genus Cocculus
genus Coccus
genus Coccyzus
genus Cochlearia
genus Cochlearius
genus Cocos

Literary usage of Genus clitocybe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"genus clitocybe The members of the genus Clitocybe have the spores white, no volva nor annulus, the gills with thin edges not notched on the edge near the ..."

2. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"In the warty character of the spores this species differs from most of the species of the genus Clitocybe, and some writers place it in a different genus ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"... BRIEFER ARTICLES A NEW POISONOUS MUSHROOM (WITH THREE FIGURES) The genus Clitocybe is a large one, with approximately 400 species. ..."

4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1877)
"At first sight, the plants of which the mass consisted, had apparently all the characters of the sub- genus clitocybe, and I was inclined to refer them ..."

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