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Body | ||
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| acervulus | A mat of hyphae bearing short conidiophores packed closely together | ||
| acicular | having the form of a needle. | ||
| acuminate | tapering to a sharp point | ||
| Adnate | (of gill profile) attached to stem by the full depth of the gill | ||
| Adnexed | (of gill profile) attached to stem by a narrower amount than the full depth of the gill | ||
| Adpressed | Closely flattened against/onto a surface | ||
| aeciospore | dikaryotic spore of a rust fungus produced in an aecium; in heteroecious rusts, a spore stage that infects the alternate host | ||
| aecium (pl. aecia adj. aecial) | the fruiting body of a rust fungus in which the first dikaryotic spores (aeciospores) are produced | ||
| aethalium (pl. aethalia) |
a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass. |
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| Agaric(ales) | Generic term for gill-bearing fungi | ||
| Allantoid | (of spores) curved as in sausage shape | ||
| Alliaceous |
Smelling or tasting of garlic or onions. |
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| alveolae | small hollows in a surface. | ||
| Amorphous | Lacking clear structure | ||
| Amyloid | Turning blue/blue-black in iodine solution such as melzer's reagent | ||
| Anastomosing |
Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins |
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| Annulus | Ring around stem, remnant of partial veil covering young emergent sporophore* | ||
| antheridium | male sexual organ (male gametangium) found in some fungi | ||
| Apex |
The top, highest part. |
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| Apical | Towards the apex | ||
| Apiculus | (of spores) a short projection at the base | ||
| aplanospore | A non-motile spore | ||
| apothecium (pl. apothecia) | open, cuplike or saucerlike, ascus-bearing fungal fruiting body (ascocarp), often supported on a stalk | ||
| Appendiculate | Fringed with remains of the veil | ||
| Applanate | Flattened | ||
| Arbuscules | Miniscule, tree-like hyphal branching structures produced within host plant cells by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | ||
| Arcuate | (of gill profile) with concave edge in side view | ||
| Arthrospore | Asexual spore formed by the septation and fragmentation of a hypha | ||
| ascomata | structures bearing or containing asci | ||
| Ascomycetes | Major group containing all fungi producing spores in asci which are liberated by pressure | ||
| Ascospore | Reproductive cell (spore) of the acsomycete fungi | ||
| Ascus(pl. Asci) | Microscopic elongated flask-shaped cell in which ascospores are produced | ||
| Attenuate |
Gradually narrowed |
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| Azonate |
Without zones or concentric markings |
