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Definition of Tulostoma
1. Noun. Type genus of the Tulostomaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Tulostomaceae, Family Tulostomataceae, Tulostomaceae, Tulostomataceae
Member holonyms: Stalked Puffball
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tulostoma
Literary usage of Tulostoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George Massee (1892)
"Tulostoma. Pers. (emended). (figs. 3, 4, p. 28.) Peridium consisting of two layers,
... Tulostoma, Pers., Disp., p. 6; Mass., Mon. Gast., p. ..."
2. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1828)
"T. stipes nearly glabrous, the orifice of the peridium very short. Tulostoma brumale,
Pers. Disp. Mct/i. Fung. p. ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Lycoperdon (see fig. 3911) differs from Bovista in having a sterile basal portion,
which is sometimes considerably elongated. In Tulostoma (fig. ..."
4. The London Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"Tulostoma pusillum, not. size, b. section, ditto; ... in having a flat fringed,
or rather appendiculate orifice, and which may be characterised, Tulostoma ..."