Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Title |
Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Saccate | Bag like | ||
| Saprotrophic | Utilises dead organisms as source of nutrients | ||
| Scales | Pieces of surface tissue which break away or peel back (often on stem or cap) | ||
| Sclerotium (pl. Sclerotia) | Firm, rounded mass of hyphae, giving rise to a fruit body, the resting or overwintering structure typically buried within the substrate | ||
| Scurfy | Surface covered with tiny flakes or scales | ||
| Sensu | In the sense of | ||
| Septate | Divided by cell walls, possessing septa | ||
| Septum (pl. Septa) | A cross wall, dividing hyphae, cystidia, basidia, spores, etc. | ||
| Serrate | Possessing a sharply defined saw-like edge | ||
| Sessile | Without a stem | ||
| Seta (pl. Setae) | A stiff hair or bristle | ||
| Sinuate | (of gills) notched just before joining the stem (see also emarginate) | ||
| slime mould | saprophytic organisms that form vegetative amoeboid plasmodia and spores | ||
| Spathulate | Flattened oblong with narrow base | ||
| Species | A narrowly defined type of organism, differentiating members of a genus | ||
| Sphaerocyst | A globbose cell | ||
| Sphaeropedunculate | A cystidium swollen spherically at the tip, and tapering to an elongated stalk | ||
| Spines | Tooth, peg, or spine-like structures over which the spore producing layer is spread | ||
| Spinulose | Finely spiny | ||
| Spore | General term for the reproductive unit of a fungus, consisting of a single cell which germinates to produce a hypha, from which a new mycelium arises | ||
| Spore-print | A deposit of spores from a cap which has been placed on a sheet of glass or paper | ||
| Sporophore | A spore-bearing structure (Synonym: Fruiting body) | ||
| Sporulating | Producing spores | ||
| Squamous / squamulose | Possessing small scales | ||
| Squamule | A small scale | ||
| Stellate | Star-shaped | ||
| sterigmata | small, delicate outgrowths commonly arising in groups of four at the ends of basidia and each bearing at its tip a basidiospore. | ||
| Stipe | The stem of a mushroom | ||
| Striate | Having parallel or radiating fine lines, or fine ridges | ||
| Stroma | Sterile mass of hyphal tissue | ||
| Stuffed | (of stem) central core of fibres of looser consistency than the outer tissues | ||
| Sub- | Almost, not quite (used as a prefix) | ||
| Subspherical | Less than a perfect sphere, sub-globose | ||
| Substrate | The material or organism upon which the fungus is growing, and within which the mycelium is commonly embedded | ||
| Sulcate | Having radiating wrinkles, grooved | ||
| Superior | (of ring) positioned above mid-height on stem |