Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Fungi Glossary
Title |
Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| pallid | pale, or lacking in colour, dull, without intensity. | ||
| Palmate | Like fingers on a hand, having lobes radiating from a central point | ||
| Papillate | Having a small, nipple-like protuberance | ||
| Paraphyses | Sterile hyphal filaments interspersed between the asci | ||
| Parasite | An organism that sustains itself upon another living organism, whilst providing nothing in return | ||
| Partial veil | Joins the edge of the cap to the stem, enclosing the developing spore-bearing surface (e.g. Agarics, and certain boletes), and in some other genera, later forming the ring or cortina | ||
| Pedicel | A small stalk | ||
| Peridioles | Pea-shaped structures containing spores | ||
| Peridium | Layer of tissue covering a fruiting body | ||
| Perithicia | Flask-shaped spore producing chambers (found in certain ascomycetes) and embedded within a mass of infertile tissue (stroma) | ||
| phototrophic | reacting to light stimulus, bending towards light. | ||
| Pileus | The cap of a mushroom | ||
| Pleurocystidia | Cystidia on gill sides | ||
| plumose | feathery. | ||
| Polymorphic | Having several forms | ||
| Polypore | Common name for woody or tough fruitbodied fungi, having pored, tubular spore producing layers | ||
| Pore | (of polypores & boletes) the mouth of a spore-bearing tube | ||
| Pruina | Fine powdery coating on stem or cap | ||
| Pruinose | Covered with fine powder (in comparison, finer in texture than farinose) | ||
| Pulvinate | Cushion-like | ||
| Punctate | Decorated with fine dots, minutely dotted or pitted | ||
| Pycnidium (pl. Pycnidia) | A hollow, flask-shaped structure lined with conidiophores bearing conidia | ||
| Pyriform | Pear-shaped |