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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.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Tricholomataceae, Tricholomataceae
Member holonyms: Clitocybe Clavipes, Clitocybe Dealbata, Clitocybe Inornata, Clitocybe Robusta, Clytocybe Alba, Clitocybe Irina, Lepista Irina, Tricholoma Irinum, Clitocybe Subconnexa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Clitocybe
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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