genus sclerotium

English Thesaurus

1. form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus genus,
definition	:	includes lichen genera (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	mycelia sterilia, order mycelia sterilia,
definition	:	order of imperfect fungi having no known spore stage (noun.plant)