The Shroomery Mycology Glossary
This glossary is to serve as a reference for both beginners and the advanced. Please e-mail us if you have any definitions that you feel should be added here.
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| caespitose | crowded together in a cluster but not attached to each other |
| campanulate | bell shaped |
| cap | top part of a mushroom which bears the fertile tissue |
| capillitium | modified hyphae mixed with spores in the Gasteromycetes |
| carpophore | name given to the stem, cap and gills (fruiting body as a whole) |
| cartilaginous | used to describe consistency of stem tissue; does not bend but breaks with a snap |
| caulocystidium | a cystidium on the stem |
| cellular | where the outermost layer of the cap (cuticle) is made up of spherical cells |
| cheilocystidium | a cystidium on the edge of a gill |
| chryocystidium | a cystidium that stains yellow in KOH or ammonia |
| cinereous | ash grey in colour |
| clamp connections | semi-circular side branches that grow around the septa in many basidiomycetes |
| clavate | club-shaped |
| concolourous | of the same colour |
| context | the flesh of the fungus |
| convergent | used to describe the central tissue of the gill when it curves towards the mid-line |
| convex | used to describe a cap that is regularly rounded or broadly obtuse |
| coprophilous | inhabiting dung |
| coriaceous | leathery |
| cortina | a cob-web like partial veil of silky fibres |
| crenate | scalloped |
| cuticle | the surface layer of the cap or stem, usually distinct from the flesh |
| cystidium | special large sterile cells amongst the basidia on the gills of many fungi – often of distinctive shape and used in classification. Also found on surfaces of cap and stem. |
