Category: P

Small white or colored dots, often on the apex of the stem but sometimes covering the stem.  

Common name for members of the family Polyporaceae, with firmly attached, thin tube layers on leathery or woody fruiting bodies.  

Type of mushroom fruit body with cap and gills, but either lacking a stem or having a highly reduced and lateral stem; as in Pleurotus.  

(Of mushroom spores) A depression or flat unornamented area on an ornamental spore surface next to the apiculus on the inner face of the spores, defining the genus Galerina.  

Tiny flask-shaped or round fruit bodies that have a pore at the top through which the ascospores are discharged.  

The wall surrounding the spore case in gasteromycetes such as puffballs.  

The small lentil-shaped spore capsules produced in the splash cups of bird’s nest fungi, called eggs.  

A membranous, web-like, or glutinous covering that extends from the cap margin to the stem, protecting the young gills or tubes.  

Aerial roots that protrude from the soil.  

Referring mostly to a tuft of long hairs or bristles at one end of a seed, used for dispersal by wind. A wisp or puff of smoke, especially one that may rise from a surgical field in which electrocautery or lasers are used to cut, coagulate, or destroy tissue. Surgical plumes may contain carbon monoxide,…