Stem Checkboxes

of a stem, the same diameter throughout its length, cylindric, will match with 'equal', 'tubular', 'cylindric', or 'cylindrical'

wider at base than at the top, will match with various ways of describing this

narrower at the base than at the top, will match with various ways of describing this

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'

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-shaped, narrowing from middle to both ends, will match with 'spindle-shaped', 'fusiform' or 'fusoid'

wider at top and bottom than in the middle, will match with 'enlarged at either end' or 'thicker at either end'

compressed so that a cross-section of the stem is elliptic rather than circular, will match with 'flattened' or 'compressed'

routinely or characteristically curved (gradually bent), will match with 'curved' and 'flexuous'

with a root like extension below the base that is buried in what the mushroom is growing on, will match with 'root' or 'rooting'

stem is attached to the underside of the cap but not at its center, will match with 'off-center' or 'eccentric'

stem is attached to the side of the cap, will match with 'lateral'

stem is rudimentary or does not form at all, will match with 'absent' or 'none' or 'rudimentary'

will match with ivory, pallid, silver, white, whitish

will match with cream, ivory, very pale yellow

will match with amber, citrine, cream, golden, honey, saffron, sandy, straw, yellow, yellowish

will match with amber, apricot, orange, peach, saffron, vermilion

will match with cinnabar, crimson, magenta, maroon, red, reddish, scarlet, vermilion

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

will match with wine-colored, winy, vinaceous

will match with lavender, lilac, mauve, purple, violet, violaceous, blue, bluish, livid, turquoise, bluish green

will match with green, greenish, olivaceous, olive, turquoise

will match with cinereous, dingy, drab, dusky, gray, grayish, silver, slate, slaty, fuliginous, fuscous, livid, smoky, sooty

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

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

between buff and orange brown, will match with argillaceous, brownish yellow, clay, honey, isabelline, ochraceous, ochre, tawny, yellowish brown

between yellow brown and red brown; will match with foxy, tawny, fulvous, orange brown, cinnamon, pinkish cinnamon, argillaceous, clay-colored, fulvous, sayal-brown

will match with bay, brick, chestnut, ferruginous, maroon, raw sienna, rufous, rust, rusty, russet, cinnamon

will match with purple brown, violet brown, violaceous brown, wine brown, vinaceous brown

will match with olive brown, olivaceous brown

will match with fuscous, gray brown, grayish brown, avellaneous, wood brown, drab

will match with blackish brown, chocolate brown, dark brown, fuscous, umber

will match with black, blackish, sooty

marked with longitudinal lines or fine grooves, will match with 'striate', 'fibril', 'thread', or 'lined'

marked with regular longitudinal furrows and ridges, will match with 'grooved', 'sulcate', or 'furrowed'

with roundish areas different in color from the rest of the surface, will match with 'spot', 'dot', or 'punctate'

with small depressions, will match with 'pit', 'pitted', or 'scrobiculate' (scrobiculae being large shallowly-sunken often wet-looking depressions)

showing fine fibers called fibrils which may or may not be raised from surface, fibrillose, will match with 'thread', 'fibril', or 'fibrillose'

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'

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'

smooth and shining like silk, will match with 'silk' or 'satin'

with the appearance of velvet, will match with 'velvety', 'velutinous', or 'felty'

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'

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

with a delicate covering like frost on a window, not obscuring the underlying color; will match with 'frosted', 'hoary', or 'bloom'

looking finely powdered or very finely granular, will match with 'powder', 'powdery', 'pruinose', 'pruinate'

covered with granules, coarser than pruinose, will match with 'powder', 'granular', 'granules', 'grains', 'bran', 'scurfy', 'mealy', or 'flour'

small particles on surface which are larger than granules, will match with 'flecks', 'floccules', 'flakes', 'fragments', 'furfuraceous', 'scurf', 'mealy', or 'bran'

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'

breaking across like chalk, as in Lactarius and Russula; will match with those genera

breaking or splitting easily, will match with 'fragile' or 'splitting'

strong, able to resist stress, will match with 'tough' or 'cartilaginous'

with horizontal or irregular strips of different color or texture, will match with 'banded'