Tubercularia

noun

Tu·​ber·​cu·​lar·​ia

-a(a)rēə

: a genus (the type of the family Tuberculariaceae) comprising fungi with often red or pink sporodochia and including some that cause diebacks of woody plants

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from tubercularis + -ia

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