| adnate |
attached directly to the stalk |
| adnexed |
notched just at the stalk |
| appressed |
lying flat or flattened against a surface |
| azonate |
lacking concentric bands |
| Basidiomycetes |
fungi having septate hyphae and spores on a basidium,
including rusts, smuts, mushrooms, and puffballs |
| campulate |
bell-shaped |
| cespitose |
several stalks arising close together, but not joined |
| decurrent |
extending down the stalk |
| distant |
(of gills) well separated |
| fibril |
minute hair |
| fibrillose |
composed of delicate long hairs |
| floccose |
cottony hairs |
| glabrous |
smooth, lacking hair, warts or squamules |
| glaucous |
appearing frosted |
| gleba |
spore mass inside a puffball |
| gregarious |
growing in groups or troops |
| imbricate |
each one growing just above the other one |
| latex |
"milk", a variously colored juice |
| membranous |
skin-like tissue making up the partial veil |
| ovoid |
not quite round |
| partial veil |
covering from unopened margin of cap to stalk |
| reticulate |
shallow net-like ridges on the stalk |
| rugose |
coarsely wrinkled |
| scabers |
small brown to blackish tufts of hair on the stalk |
| septate |
divided by or having a septum |
| serrate |
sawtooth-like to nearly ragged |
| squamules |
small, often ill-defined scales |
| striate |
having minute radial lines of furrows |
| terrestrial |
growing on the ground |
| umbo |
a knob; an abruptly raised area in the center of the
cap |
| ungulate |
shaped like a horse's hoof |
| viscid |
sticky, slippery |
| volva |
remains of universal veil, often surrounds base of
stalk like a cup |
