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Definition of Order Uredinales
1. Noun. Rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Order
Group relationships: Basidiomycetes, Class Basidiomycetes
Member holonyms: Rust, Rust Fungus, Family Melampsoraceae, Melampsoraceae, Family Pucciniaceae, Pucciniaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Uredinales
Literary usage of Order Uredinales
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 order Uredinales contains the largest array of parasitic fungi of any existing
order and one in which there is an extensive economic interest because of ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Rusts (order Uredinales) arc minute plants, parasitic in the tissues of higher
plants. (F.ifJ. 21). They consist of branching filaments which grow through ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The plant rusts are fungi constituting the large and well-defined order Uredinales,
which contains approximately 3000 species distributed in about forty ..."