The Shroomery Mycology Glossary
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| saccate | of the volva cup or bag-shaped |
| saprophyte | obtaining organic nutrients from dead material |
| scabrous | rough with short projections in the form of granules or scales |
| sclerotium | a (often spherical) aggregate of hyphae often with a hard dark-coloured rind, generally thought to be a resting stage with better capacity for survival than mycelium . It can germinate to produce hyphae, or fruit bodies. |
| septate | divided by cross walls |
| serrate | saw-toothed,used to describe the margin of gills |
| serrulate | finely toothed |
| sessile | without a stalk |
| sinuate | notched used to describe gills which have a notch before attaching to the stem |
| sphaerocysts | globose cells in the flesh of Russulaceae, Hypholoma and Stropharia |
| spore | reproductive structure often of a single rounded cell with a thickened wall that disseminates the fungus |
| sporophore | fungal fruiting body |
| squamose | covered with scales |
| squamulose | covered with minute scales |
| squamulose | covered with very small scales |
| stellate | star-shaped |
| stem | stipe |
| sterigma | the stem at the top of the basidium which bears each spore |
| stipe | stem usually of a toadstool |
| stipitate | with a stem |
| striate | with fine radiating lines or furrows around the cap margin |
| stroma | a hard conglomerate of hyphae , found in some Ascomycetes |
| subdecurrent | where gills run down the stem for only a short distance |
| subglobose | almost spherical |
| subhymenium | differentiated tissue that gives rise to the hymenium |
| subovoid | not quite round |
| substrate | the material on whioch a fungus grows e.g. on wood |
| subtormentose | more or less woolly |
| sulcate | grooved |
| superior | where the ring is attached above the middle of the stem |
