Matchmaker:
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Gills Checkboxes
Gills Colour
| White | will match with ivory, pallid, silver, white, whitish |
| Cream | will match with cream, ivory, very pale yellow |
| Yellow | will match with amber, citrine, cream, golden, honey, saffron, sandy, straw, yellow, yellowish |
| Orange | will match with amber, apricot, orange, peach, saffron, vermilion |
| Red | will match with cinnabar, crimson, magenta, maroon, red, reddish, scarlet, vermilion |
| Pink | includes any shade of pink as well as the pinkish brown spore color of the Entolomataceae family, will match with flesh, incarnate, magenta, peach, pink, rose, salmon |
| Wine | will match with wine-colored, winy, vinaceous |
| Violet / Blue | will match with lavender, lilac, mauve, purple, violet, violaceous, blue, bluish, livid, turquoise, bluish green |
| Green / Olive | will match with green, greenish, olivaceous, olive, turquoise |
| Gray | will match with cinereous, dingy, drab, dusky, gray, grayish, silver, slate, slaty, fuliginous, fuscous, livid, smoky, sooty |
| Any Brown | will match with argillaceous, avellaneous, bay, bister, bistre, brick, brown, brownish, chestnut, cinnamon, clay, coffee, dingy, drab, ferruginous, foxy, fuliginous, fulvous, fuscous, hazel, honey, isabelline, rufous, rusty, russet, sienna, sepia, tawny, umber |
| Light Brown / Buff | a pale yellow toned with gray-brown, i.e. a dingy yellowish brown or very pale tan, will match with alutaceous, beige, buff, buffy, fawn, honey, leather, pinkish buff, sandy, tan |
| Yellow Brown | between buff and orange brown, will match with argillaceous, brownish yellow, clay, honey, isabelline, ochraceous, ochre, tawny, yellowish brown |
| Orange Brown / Cinnamon | between yellow brown and red brown; will match with foxy, tawny, fulvous, orange brown, cinnamon, pinkish cinnamon, argillaceous, clay-colored, fulvous, sayal-brown |
| Red Brown | will match with bay, brick, chestnut, ferruginous, maroon, raw sienna, rufous, rust, rusty, russet, cinnamon |
| Purple Brown / Wine Brown | will match with purple brown, violet brown, violaceous brown, wine brown, vinaceous brown |
| Olive Brown | will match with olive brown, olivaceous brown |
| Gray Brown | will match with fuscous, gray brown, grayish brown, avellaneous, wood brown, drab |
| Dark Brown | will match with blackish brown, chocolate brown, dark brown, fuscous, umber |
| Black | will match with black, blackish, sooty |
Gill Shape
| Free | refers to gills that are not attached to stem; will match with 'free' or 'seceding' |
| Adnexed | refers to gills that are narrowly attached to the stem: the gill edge curves gradually upward along the inner half of the gill and is attached to the stem by a narrow upper portion of the gill; if abruptly adnexed, gill edge curves abruptly upwards to stem but makes contact with stem in straight line (does not curve as in sinuate attachment); will match with 'adnexed' or 'attached' |
| Adnate | refers to gills that are broadly attached to the stem, the lower edge of the gill being attached at the line at which a straight gill edge would intersect the stem: if attached above this line it would be adnexed or notched, if attached below this line it would be decurrent; will match with 'adnate' or 'attached' |
| Decurrent | refers to gills that run down the stem: i.e. attachment at stem is wider than average height of gill, will match with 'decurrent', 'descending' or 'running down stem' |
| Notched | refers to gills that are uncinate or sinuate or emarginate, as if a wedge of gill had been removed near the stem: if the line of the bottom edge of the gill curves down sharply, gills are uncinate; if it curved gradually toward the stem reaching it more or less horizontally, gills are sinuate (emarginate); will match with 'notched', 'uncinate', 'sinuate', 'emarginate', or 'attached' |
| Distant | of gill spacing, meaning the gills are spaced far apart, the order being crowded, (subcrowded), (subclose), close, subdistant, distant, will match with 'distant', 'well spaced', 'widely spaced', 'well separated' or 'not very close' |
| Subdistant | of gill spacing, intermediate between close and distant, the order being crowded, (subcrowded), (subclose), close, subdistant, distant, will match with 'subdistant' |
| Close | of gill spacing, nearly touching but with visible space between, intermediate between crowded and distant, the order being crowded, (subcrowded), (subclose), close, subdistant, distant, will match with 'close' |
| Crowded | of gill spacing, very close, touching or with almost no space between, the order being crowded, (subcrowded), (subclose), close, subdistant, distant, will match with 'crowded' or 'subclose' |
| Forking | with some gills dividing into two separate gills partway along their length, will match with 'forked' or 'forking' |
| Anastomosing | forming a network, with gills joining together or connecting by cross-veins, will match with 'anastomosed' or 'anastomosing' |
| Interveined | connected by "veins" (ridges) that run between gills, will match with 'interveined', 'veins', or 'venose' |
| Dissolving Black | melting into liquid, usually referring to the gills and cap of Coprinus or of some species of Bolbitaceae, same as deliquescent, will match with 'dissolving', 'deliquescing', 'deliquescent', 'liquefying', or 'ink' |
| Edges Darker | the gill edge having a color darker than the gill sides, will match with 'marginate' or with specific darker color |
| Edges Paler or Fringed | edges of gills paler than sides, or fringed with a lower border of parallel threads or fibers or cystidia, so that the edge is finely jagged and not smooth (same as fimbriate), the two characters taken together because fringed edges typically paler, will match with 'fringed', 'fimbriate', 'edges white', 'edges whitish', 'edges paler', 'edges pallid' or 'edges frosted' |
| Scalloped | with notched edge or rounded teeth, same as crenate or if finely scalloped crenulate, will match with 'scalloped', 'crenate', or 'crenulate' |
| Serrate | saw-toothed to almost ragged, will match with 'serrate', 'serrated', 'saw-edged', or 'toothed', or if a Lentinellus species |
| Waxy | appearing as if coated with wax; will match with 'waxy' or if a Hygrocybe or Hygrophorus species |
| Brittle | breaking easily, rigid and breaking with a snap, will match with 'brittle' or if a Russula or Lactarius species |
| Spotted | with roundish areas different in color from the rest of the surface, will match with 'spot', 'dot', or 'punctate' |
| Mottled | spotted, as in the uneven ripening of spores in the genus Panaeolus, will match with 'mottled' |