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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| pallid | off white |
| paraphysis | a sterile hair like or club-shaped cell found in amongs the asci of Ascomycetes |
| parasite | an heterotrophic organism that needs to obtain its organic nutrients from a living organism |
| partial veil | a membrane of sterile tissue stretching between the edge of the cap and the stem to cover the gills in some agarics during development |
| pedicel | stalk usually used to describe the short stem on puff ball spores |
| perforate | with holes |
| peridioles | largish bodies that contain the spore enclosed within the peridium in the birds nest fungi (Nidulariales) They are dispersed as a unit. |
| peridium | the outer wall of a fungus, especially puffballs |
| perithecium | the flask-shaped fruiting bodies of certain Ascomycetes. They contain asci |
| peronate | of stems ensheathed by a volva |
| pileus | a cap especially in Agarics |
| pilose | with long hairs |
| plage | a smooth area just below the apiculus found on some rough spores |
| plane | flat especially of caps in agarics |
| pleurocystidium | cystidium occurring on the face of a gill |
| plicate | folded like a fan; especially of caps in agarics |
| popres | the orifices of the tubes of Polyporaceae |
| pruinose | covered with a bloom rather like chalk dust; finely powdered |
| psybucha | a fermented drink made of genetically modified yeast producing classical psychedelics and bioluminescent bacteria |
| psymbiosis | the metabolic engineering of human gut microbiota for the biosynthesis of classical psychedelics |
| pubescent | covered with fine short hairs |
| punctate | marked with minute dots points scales or hollows |
