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Definition of Genus gymnosporangium
1. Noun. Genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Pucciniaceae, Pucciniaceae
Member holonyms: Apple Rust, Cedar-apple Rust, Gymnosporangium Juniperi-virginianae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gymnosporangium
Literary usage of Genus gymnosporangium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"There is, perhaps, no genus of rust fungi comprising several or more species
which is as uniform in developmental processes as the genus Gymnosporangium. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"... transferred tlie species to the genus Gymnosporangium, arid gave somewhat in
detail the external appearance of the witches' brooms caused by the growth ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"All the cedar apples are now considered to be species of the genus Gymnosporangium,
belonging to the order ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"... has published ' 'A Biologic and Taxonomic Study of the genus gymnosporangium."
Dr. Kern has made the usual taxonomic study, in connection with which, ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"In a recent bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden Dr. Frank D. Kern has
published '' A Biologic and Taxonomic Study of the genus gymnosporangium. ..."
6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"... and other characters of this rust indicate its relationship in a general way
to the genus Gymnosporangium, while some of its characters show affinity ..."
7. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The life history of this rust-fungus differs, however, from all of the other
species of the genus Gymnosporangium, ..."
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