Definition of Auriculariaceae

1. Noun. Fungi having gelatinous sporophores.

Exact synonyms: Family Auriculariaceae
Generic synonyms: Fungus Family
Group relationships: Order Tremellales, Tremellales
Member holonyms: Auricularia, Genus Auricularia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auriculariaceae

Aum Shinrikyo
Aunt Sally
Auntie
Aura
Aurangabad
Auregnais
Aurelia
Aurelian
Aurelius
Aureolaria
Aureolaria pedicularia
Aureolaria virginica
Aureomycin
Auricularia auricula
Auriculariaceae (current term)
Auriculariales
Auriga
Auriparus
Auriparus flaviceps
Aurora
Aurum
Aus antigen
Ausbausprachen
Auschwitz
Auslan
Ausonian
Ausonians
Aussie
Aussie battler

Literary usage of Auriculariaceae

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

1. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"The family Auriculariaceae with us contains Auricularia, the Jew's ear, a gelatinous ear like fungus growing singly or in clustered masses on Sambucus ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"... (Auriculariaceae), and also (idem 110-119) 23 new species distributed among 16 genera.—GP CLINTON (idem 128-156) has published in preliminary form the ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... and the basidia are directly continuous with the hyphae of the Fungus. Otherwise, the basidia of Auriculariaceae, Tremellaceae, ..."

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