Glossary

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  • Inoperculate

    (Of asci) Having a pore, not a lid, at the apex of the ascus, through which the spores are shot.  

  • Hymenium

    The spore-bearing layer of a fruit body. A fertile layer in a fructification.  

  • Hygrophanous

    Appearing one color when wet and then changing to a different, faded color when moisture is lost.  

  • Gleba

    Gleba

    The spore-producing tissue, or spore mass, within the peridium of a gasteromycete.  

  • Germ pore

    (Of spores) The differentiated tip on a spore where the spore wall is so thin it appears as if a hole or opening is present; the place through which the germ tube often extends upon spore germination.  

  • Gasteromycete

    Gasteromycete

    One of a group of diverse basidiomycetes that develop spores inside spore cases and do not actively discharge their spores, for example, puffballs, stinkhorns, and bird’s nest fungi.  

  • Fruit body

    The organized reproductive structure of a fungus that produces spores, such as the mushroom, coral, polypore, cup, perithecium, and so on.  

  • Friable

    (Of universal veil) Breaking up readily, crumbling. Easily broken up into small pieces.  

  • Fairy ring

    Fairy ring

    Ring of mushrooms growing from the periphery of a radially spreading, underground mycelium.  

  • Dots

    Dots

    (Of stem) Small white or colored points over the apex, or sometimes covering the entire stem, pruina; if sticky then referred to as glandular dots, as in boletes and the genus Suillus in particular.  

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