genus corticium

1. 1.

   genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia

   SynonymsCorticium

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofThelephoraceae

Questions about genus corticium

What does genus corticium mean?

genus corticium means "genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia".

What is another word for genus corticium?

Close synonyms include Corticium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus corticium a common word?

genus corticium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.