Definition of Pholiota destruens

1. Noun. A large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard.

Generic synonyms: Agaric
Group relationships: Genus Pholiota, Pholiota

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pholiota Destruens

Phoenician alphabet
Phoenicians
Phoenicophorium
Phoenicopteridae
Phoeniculidae
Phoeniculus
Phoenicurus
Phoenix
Phoenix dactylifera
Pholadidae
Pholidae
Pholidota
Pholiota
Pholiota astragalina
Pholiota aurea
Pholiota destruens (current term)
Pholiota flammans
Pholiota flavida
Pholiota nameko
Pholiota squarrosa
Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa
Pholiota squarrosoides
Pholis
Pholis gunnellus
Pholistoma
Pholistoma auritum
Phoma
Phoney War
Phoradendron
Phoradendron flavescens

Literary usage of Pholiota destruens

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

1. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"Pholiota destruens (Brond.). A very destructive parasite on poplars ; also attacks birch and willow. Pholiota mutabilis (Schaeff.). Pre-eminently the stump ..."

2. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1899)
"densely tufted, dry, yellowish- brown ; pileus and stem, up to the ring, ornamented with projecting brown scales. Smell strong. Pholiota destruens (Brond.). ..."

3. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1907)
"... up to the superior, floccose, radiating ring, stuffed; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 7X3/*. Pholiota destruens ..."

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