| Equal
| of a stem, the same diameter throughout its length, cylindric,
will match with 'equal', 'tubular', 'cylindric', or 'cylindrical' |
| Widens Down
| wider at base than at the top, will match with various ways
of describing this |
| Narrows Down
| narrower at the base than at the top, will match with various
ways of describing this |
| Gradual Bulb
| with a prominently enlarged base, but without a flange or
sudden enlargement at the base of the stem, will match with various ways
of describing this, including 'clavate' and 'club-shaped' |
| Abrupt Bulb
| having a flange (circular ridge) at the top of the base,
or at least enlarging suddenly at the top of the base, will match with
various ways of describing this |
| Spindle
| spindle-shaped, narrowing from middle to both ends, will
match with 'spindle-shaped', 'fusiform' or 'fusoid' |
| Hourglass
| wider at top and bottom than in the middle, will match with
'enlarged at either end' or 'thicker at either end' |
| Flattened
| compressed so that a cross-section of the stem is elliptic
rather than circular, will match with 'flattened' or 'compressed' |
| Curved
| routinely or characteristically curved (gradually bent),
will match with 'curved' and 'flexuous' |
| Rooting
| with a root like extension below the base that is buried
in what the mushroom is growing on, will match with 'root' or 'rooting' |
| Off-center
| stem is attached to the underside of the cap but not at
its center, will match with 'off-center' or 'eccentric' |
| Lateral
| stem is attached to the side of the cap, will match with
'lateral' |
| Absent
| stem is rudimentary or does not form at all, will match
with 'absent' or 'none' or 'rudimentary' |
| 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 |
| Striate
| marked with longitudinal lines or fine grooves, will match
with 'striate', 'fibril', 'thread', or 'lined' |
| Grooved
| marked with regular longitudinal furrows and ridges, will
match with 'grooved', 'sulcate', or 'furrowed' |
| Spotted
| with roundish areas different in color from the rest of
the surface, will match with 'spot', 'dot', or 'punctate' |
| Pitted
| with small depressions, will match with 'pit', 'pitted',
or 'scrobiculate' (scrobiculae being large shallowly-sunken often wet-looking
depressions) |
| Fibrillose
| showing fine fibers called fibrils which may or may not
be raised from surface, fibrillose, will match with 'thread', 'fibril',
or 'fibrillose' |
| Scaly
| having pieces of tissue on surface that are not especially
elongated, differentiated from surface by color or by projecting from
it, will match with 'appressed scales', 'scurfy', 'squamose', or 'squamulose' |
| Erect Scales
| having pieces of tissue on surface that is not especially
elongated, differentiated from surface by projecting from it at right
angles (erect) or bending even further up (recurved), will match with
'erect scales', 'upturned scales', or 'recurved scales' |
| Silky
| smooth and shining like silk, will match with 'silk' or
'satin' |
| Velvety
| with the appearance of velvet, will match with 'velvety',
'velutinous', or 'felty' |
| Woolly
| with the appearance of unspun wool, will match with 'woolly',
'cottony', 'villose', 'floccose', 'flocculose', 'felty', 'tomentose',
'tomentulose', 'downy', and 'pubescent', note some of these also match
with 'hairy' |
| Fine Hairs
| with fine or even coarse hairs (hand lens may be necessary),
will match with 'hairy', 'hispid', 'hirsute', 'strigose', 'felty', 'tomentose',
'tomentulose', 'villose', 'downy', 'pubescent', note some of these also
match with woolly; will not match with hairs that are just due to tomentum
or mycelium at base of stem |
| Frosted
| with a delicate covering like frost on a window, not obscuring
the underlying color; will match with 'frosted', 'hoary', or 'bloom' |
| Pruinose
| looking finely powdered or very finely granular, will match
with 'powder', 'powdery', 'pruinose', 'pruinate' |
| Granular
| covered with granules, coarser than pruinose, will match
with 'powder', 'granular', 'granules', 'grains', 'bran', 'scurfy', 'mealy',
or 'flour' |
| Flecks
| small particles on surface which are larger than granules,
will match with 'flecks', 'floccules', 'flakes', 'fragments', 'furfuraceous',
'scurf', 'mealy', or 'bran' |
| Patches
| a large or irregular area on surface, differing in color
or texture from the rest of the surface, will match with 'patch', 'blotch',
'splash', 'mottled', or 'fragments' |
