Definition of Genus Volvaria

1. Noun. Agarics having pink spores and a distinct volva.

Exact synonyms: Volvaria
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Volvariaceae, Volvariaceae
Member holonyms: Volvaria Bombycina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Volvaria

genus Vicugna
genus Vidua
genus Vigna
genus Viminaria
genus Vinca
genus Vincetoxicum
genus Viola
genus Vipera
genus Vireo
genus Virgilia
genus Viscum
genus Vitis
genus Vittaria
genus Viverra
genus Viverricula
genus Volvaria (current term)
genus Volvariella
genus Volvox
genus Vorticella
genus Vulpes
genus Vultur
genus Weigela
genus Welwitchia
genus Welwitschia
genus Wintera
genus Wisteria
genus Wolffia
genus Wolffiella
genus Woodsia
genus Woodwardia

Literary usage of Genus Volvaria

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)
"... The members of the genus Volvaria are fleshy fungi, soon becoming putrescent. The spores are salmon colour. A volva is present, but no annulus. ..."

2. The Conchologist's Text-book: Embracing the Arrangements of Lamarck and by Thomas Brown (1853)
"This shell, however, is not an apt representative of the genus Volvaria, it being a Bulh.na. Genus 8.—MARGINELLA Lamarck. Generic Character. ..."

3. New and Otherwise Interesting Tertiary Mollusca from Texas by Gilbert Dennison Harris (1895)
"... from the Ripley Cretaceous beds of Mississippi. The Texas specimen was probably derived from the upper Cretaceous not far below Austin. Genus VOLVARIA. ..."

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