Definition of Genus Tilletia

1. Noun. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae.

Exact synonyms: Tilletia
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Tilletiaceae, Tilletiaceae
Member holonyms: Bunt, Tilletia Caries, Bunt, Stinking Smut, Tilletia Foetida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tilletia

genus Thuja
genus Thujopsis
genus Thunbergia
genus Thunnus
genus Thylacinus
genus Thylogale
genus Thymus
genus Thyrsopteris
genus Thysanocarpus
genus Tiarella
genus Tibicen
genus Tichodroma
genus Tilapia
genus Tilia
genus Tillandsia
genus Tilletia (current term)
genus Timalia
genus Tinca
genus Tinea
genus Tineola
genus Tipuana
genus Titanosaurus
genus Tithonia
genus Todea
genus Todus
genus Tofieldia
genus Tolmiea
genus Tolypeutes
genus Tomistoma
genus Toona

Literary usage of Genus Tilletia

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"A revision of the genus Tilletia, by Massee, is contained in the Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information for 1899. Professor Bailey contributes to The ..."

2. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1901)
"Massee,f in his recent monograph of Tilletia, excludes this species from the genus Tilletia The spores measure 16.6 to 20.8x24.9 to 29.1. ..."

3. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1913)
"(5) Black mildew, due often to fungi belonging to the genus Tilletia, is occasionally found; it is very rapid in growth. (6) Purple mildew is rare. ..."

4. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1907)
"(5) Black mildew, due often to fungi belonging to the genus Tilletia, is occasionally found; it is very rapid in growth. (6) Purple mildew is rare. ..."

5. Transactions by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1881)
"... the internal cells on the rupture of the sori give off short germinal tubes, which bear at their tips whorls of short cells as in the genus Tilletia. ..."

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