Glossary

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  • Plage

    (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.  

  • Perithecia

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

  • Peridium

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

  • Peridioles

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

  • Partial veil

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

  • Ornamentation

    Having warts, ridges, lines, or wrinkles, not smooth. Sculpturing, used for pollen or seed surfaces that can bear spines, granules, warts, tubercles, reticulations, flanges, etc.  

  • Oil droplets

    Apparently oily, spherical material inside a cell, especially spores, when viewed under a microscope.  

  • Ochraceous

    Ochre-colored, deep orange-brown or yellow-brown.  

  • Nonamyloid

    Remaining colorless or merely yellowish in Melzer’s reagent.  

  • Narrow

    Describes the distance between the gills’ attachment to the cap and the gills’ lower edge when it is less than the thickness of the flesh of the cap. The blood vessel is a narrow channel which takes blood to the tissues.  

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