Definition of Genus Gymnosporangium

1. Noun. Genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gymnosporangium

genus Groenlandia
genus Grus
genus Guaiacum
genus Guevina
genus Gulo
genus Gutierrezia
genus Gymnadenia
genus Gymnadeniopsis
genus Gymnelis
genus Gymnocalycium
genus Gymnocarpium
genus Gymnocladus
genus Gymnogyps
genus Gymnopilus
genus Gymnorhina
genus Gymnosporangium (current term)
genus Gymnura
genus Gynura
genus Gypaetus
genus Gyps
genus Gypsophila
genus Gyromitra
genus Haastia
genus Habenaria
genus Hackelia
genus Haemanthus
genus Haematobia
genus Haematopus
genus Haematoxylon
genus Haematoxylum

Literary usage of Genus Gymnosporangium

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

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"There is, perhaps, no genus of rust fungi comprising several or more species which is as uniform in developmental processes as the genus Gymnosporangium. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"... transferred tlie species to the genus Gymnosporangium, arid gave somewhat in detail the external appearance of the witches' brooms caused by the growth ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"All the cedar apples are now considered to be species of the genus Gymnosporangium, belonging to the order ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"... has published ' 'A Biologic and Taxonomic Study of the genus Gymnosporangium." Dr. Kern has made the usual taxonomic study, in connection with which, ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"In a recent bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden Dr. Frank D. Kern has published '' A Biologic and Taxonomic Study of the genus Gymnosporangium. ..."

6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"... and other characters of this rust indicate its relationship in a general way to the genus Gymnosporangium, while some of its characters show affinity ..."

7. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The life history of this rust-fungus differs, however, from all of the other species of the genus Gymnosporangium, ..."

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