kingdom Fungi - the taxonomic kingdom of lower plantskingdom - one of seven biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group - a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems division Lichenes, Lichenes - comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with Algae and Fungi fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores division Eumycota, Eumycota - true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi) Tremella reticulata - a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi) annulus - (Fungi) remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the lower part of the stem |