Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Fungi Glossary
Title |
Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Caespitose | (of fruiting bodies) joined or crowded together in tufts, partly fused at the stem bases | ||
| Campanulate | Bell-shaped | ||
| Capillitium | Mass of sterile thread-like fibres among the spores of gasteromycetes, which may aid spore dispersal | ||
| Capitate | (of cystidia) having a round knob-like head | ||
| Cartilaginous | Firm & tough, but flexible (as opposed to granular) | ||
| chasmothesium | ascocarp of powdery mildew fungi having no natural opening at maturity, but opens by the rupturing of its wall. | ||
| Cheilocystidia | Cystidia on the gill edge | ||
| Chlamydospore | Thick walled, non-deciduous, asexual spore | ||
| Ciliate | Fringed with hairs | ||
| circinate | Coiled into a complete or partial ring | ||
| Circumcinct |
(stipe) banded with remnants of the veil. |
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| Clamp connection | A hyphal outgrowth that connects two adjoining cells, resulting from a cell division bypassing the dividing cell wall | ||
| clathrate | latticed, net like | ||
| Clavate | Club-shaped | ||
| Cleistothecium | A completely closed fruiting body formed by some fungi of the Ascomycota, containing asci | ||
| Collar | Ring like stem structure around the apex of stem, at the attachment of the gills | ||
| Columella (pl. Columellae) | A curved cross-wall extending from the tip of a sporangiophore into the sporangium. | ||
| Concave | Downwardly curved, (opposite to convex) | ||
| Concolorous | Having the same colour | ||
| conidia | asexual spores which when mature are liberated from a conidiophore. | ||
| conidiogenesis | the formation of asexual spores (conidia) | ||
| conidiogenous | producing and bearing conidia | ||
| conidioma (pl. conidiomata) | specialized conidia-bearing structure, e.g. acervulus, pycnidium, sporodochium | ||
| Conidiophore | a hypha giving rise to conidia | ||
| Convex | Domed, upwardly curved, (opposite to concave) | ||
| coprophilous | living on dung. | ||
| Coralloid | Much-branched, coral like | ||
| Coremium (pl. Coremia) | Structure of aggregated hyphae bearing conidia at their tips | ||
| Cortina | Web-like covering between the stem and cap edge, enclosing the gills | ||
| Cortinal zone | Faint remnant of cortina on stem | ||
| Cortinate | Having a cortina | ||
| Costate | (of the surface) having a rough rib-like texture | ||
| crenate | having the edge indented with rounded teeth. | ||
| Crescentric | Crescent like | ||
| cuneiform | wedge shaped. | ||
| cupulate | cup shaped. |