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Definition of Genus Rhizopogon
1. Noun. A genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Rhizopogonaceae, Rhizopogonaceae
Member holonyms: Rhizopogon Idahoensis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rhizopogon
Literary usage of Genus Rhizopogon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The genus Rhizopogon has a sessile uterus, bursting irregularly, and marbled
internally with anastomosing veins and sessile sporangia. ..."
2. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"... to which genus Rhizopogon albus of Ens;. Fl. as far as the specimen found by
Klotzsch is concerned is certainly ..."
3. Verslagen en Mededeelingen by Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Afdeling Natuurkunde (1884)
"Man entfettet ihn mittelst Filtrirpapier und »Umkrystallisiren aus Alcohol, den
man spontan verdampfen >lasst. »Auch in anderen Species des genus Rhizopogon ..."