Definition of Tremellales

1. Noun. Fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Tremellales

Treitz's fossa
Treitz's hernia
Treitz's ligament
Treitz's muscle
Trekker
Trekkers
Trekkie
Trekkies
Trelat's sign
Trelat's stools
Tremella foliacea
Tremella fuciformis
Tremella lutescens
Tremella reticulata
Tremellaceae
Tremellales
Trenchardian
Trendelenburg
Trendelenburg's operation
Trendelenburg's position
Trendelenburg's symptom
Trendelenburg's test
Trendelenburg position
Trendelenburg radiograph
Trenewan
Trent
Trent Bridge
Trent River
Trentino

Literary usage of Tremellales

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

1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... tremellales These fungi also appear as gelatinous growths on decaying wood and tree trunks, these growths being complex and more or less indefinite ..."

2. A Preliminary Report on the Hymeniales of Connecticut by Edward Albert White (1905)
"The Auriculariales include plants of a gelatinous or cartilaginous consistency, and are more or less ear- shaped ; the tremellales are jelly-like when moist ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"tremellales. Jelly Fungi. These are mostly wood or ground inhabitants. The fruits are of moderate size and cushion-like or lobed in various ways. ..."

4. The Fungi which Cause Plant Disease by Frank Lincoln Stevens (1913)
"tremellales. Uredinales"' "• "• "• "•166'I70-175- 178' 183-187 * Small fungi, mostly microscopic, parasitic in the tissues of ferns and seed plants. ..."

5. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"... and tremellales), including the rather common Jew's-ear fungus, whose basidia become divided into four parts. In the Jew's-ear fungus the basidium ..."

6. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"tremellales. This order, which contains the greater portion of the gelatinous fungi, is composed of two small tropical families each containing a single ..."

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