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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| decurrent | gills running down the stem (like chanterelles) |
| depressed | used to describe a cap where the central portion lower than the margin |
| dextrinoid | staining brick red with Meltzers iodine |
| diaphragm | a thin membrane that separates the gleba from the stem in a puffball |
| dichotomous | equally forking into two (used for gills) |
| dimitic | when two types of hyphae are present in tissues of members of Polyporaceae |
| distant | of gills that are widely spaced |
| divergent | used to describe the central flesh of gills where hyphae turn outwards from the mid-line |
