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Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Glossary - F
This is a list of terms used in mushroom descriptions.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
F
| TERM | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| fabaceous | bean-like |
| face | of gills, the side as opposed to the edge (margin) |
| face view | of spores, when the basidium with attached spores is viewed from the side, the spores directly above and in the center are being viewed in face view and the ones at the sides are in profile view, when not attached to basidium the shape that is wider will generally be the face view if there is a difference |
| facultative | referring to an optional situation, sometimes, not necessarily; not obligate; of a parasite, able to live also as a saprobe (on dead material or from substances produced by living ones) |
| fairy ring | a circle or arc of mushrooms |
| falcate | of spores, sickle-shaped |
| falsely echinulate | of spores, appearing ornamented with fine spines in optical section but actually with smooth outline, as in Fayodia |
| family | a classification group above genus and species, but below class and order, suffix is -aceae |
| farinaceous | of odor, with the smell of fresh ground meal from whole grain, especially wheat, same as mealy |
| fasciated | of stems, caps, grown together so that tissues are intimately continuous, compare caespitose |
| fascicle | a little group or bundle of fruiting bodies, hyphae or cystidia |
| fasciculate | of fibrils, scales, stems, crowded in bundles |
| felted | same as felty |
| felty | appearing like felt, covered with more or less erect short fibrils which are long enough that some collapse; densely matted and interwoven, same as matted-fibrillose |
| ferruginous | rusty red |
| fetid | ill-smelling |
| fibril | thin thread-like fiber |
| fibrillose | composed of delicate fibers which are long and evenly arranged on the surface |
| fibrous | composed of tough, stringlike tissue |
| filamentous | composed of hyphae (threadlike cells) |
| filiform | threadlike, long and slender |
| fimbriate | fringed |
| finely adnexed | of gills, so narrowly attached that they give the appearance of being free |
| fistulose | of stem, having the flesh empty of fibrils, same as hollow, tubular |
| flabelliform | fan-shaped |
| flaccid | not firm, flabby |
| flaring | spreading out |
| flat | of cap, the margin being on the same level as the center, same as plane and applanate |
| fleeting | quickly disappearing, used here as equivalent to evanescent or fugacious |
| flesh | the tissue of cap or stem, not including the surface |
| fleshy | soft as opposed to tough; having significant substance |
| flexuous | of the stem, or of cystidia, bent alternately in opposite directions |
| floccose | with easily removed cottony or woolly tufts; woolly or cottony; dry and loosely arranged; having the appearance of cotton flannel |
| flocculose | with fine, easily removed cottony or woolly tufts; finely woolly or cottony |
| fluted | of cap, with radial ridges; of stem, with longitudinal ridges |
| foetid | ill-smelling |
| foray | a field trip |
| foray list | a list of species compiled from a field trip, often from macroscopic features, and often not as accurately as in geographic listings found in monographs or journal articles |
| forked | of gills, dividing into two or more branches as they goes away from stem |
| forking | of gills, dividing into two or more branches as they goes away from stem |
| form | a consistent appearing variation of a species, with less variation than a variety, often not sufficiently hereditary as to characterize homogeneous populations |
| forma | see form |
| free | refers to gills that are not attached to stem |
| friable | crumbling easily |
| fringed | with a border of parallel threads or fibers, so that the edge is somewhat jagged and not smooth |
| frondose | of a forest or the wood of hardwood trees |
| fruit-body | same as fruiting body |
| fruiting body | the whole reproductive structure of a mushroom including cap, gills and stem |
| fugacious | soon disappearing, fleeting |
| fuliginous | sooty brown or dark-smoke colored |
| fulvous | fox-colored, deep orange to reddish orange, reddish cinnamon brown |
| fungus (plural fungi) | an organism that lacks chlorophyll, consists of filamentous tubular branching cells with nuclei, and reproduces by spores |
| funnel-shaped | with a very deep depression, like that of a funnel |
| furcate | forking; forked or branched irregularly |
| furfuraceous | scurfy, surface covered with branlike particles resembling scales, coarser than granular |
| fuscous | color of a very dark storm cloud: variously described as combinations of gray, brown, purple, or black |
| fuscous-black | a dark, dusky black or a black with a dark reddish-gray component |
| fuscous-brown | a dark, dusky brown or a brown with a dark reddish-gray component |
| fuscous-purple | purple with a dark reddish-gray component or somewhat dark (dusky) purple |
| fusiform | spindle-shaped, narrowing from middle to both ends |
| fusoid | somewhat spindle-shaped |
| fusoid-ventricose | of cystidium, tapered toward both ends but distinctly enlarged in the middle |