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Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Glossary - K and L
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
K
| TERM | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| kaiser brown | deep ferruginous |
| KOH | potassium hydroxide, an agent commonly used to revive dried mushroom material, or show chemical reactions on the surface of the mushroom, or chemical reactions under the microscope |
| kingdom | one of five groups of living organisms: Monera (including bacteria and blue-green algae), Protoctista (including protozoans, most algae and three phyla of fungi), Animalia (animals), Plantae (plants), and Eumycota (the rest of the fungi) |
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L
| TERM | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| laccate | looking as though varnished |
| lacerate | irregularly torn |
| laciniate | of margin or cap or annulus, cut more coarsely than fringed, slashed |
| lactiferous | of hyphae in flesh, bearing a milky juice |
| lacuna (plural lacunae) | hole or hollow |
| lacunose | having holes or hollows |
| lageniform | of cystidia, swollen at the base with the middle and top part tapered into a long beak, like a gourd, therefore gourd-like |
| lamella (plural lamellae) | gill, the spore-bearing platelike structure extending underneath and from the center of the cap |
| lamellula (plural lamellulae) | the short gills that do not span the entire distance from margin to stem |
| lamprocystidium (plural lamprocystidia) | thick-walled cystidium |
| lanate | same as woolly |
| lanceolate | like a lance, many times longer than broad, and tapering; of cystidia somewhat wider in middle and tapered at both ends |
| lateral | of a stem, attached to the side of the cap |
| latericeous | brick-red |
| latex | juice or milk of a Lactarius; juice usually of a milky color but also applied to other colors |
| lectotype | an element selected in a later work from the original material where no holotype was designated |
| lens | a hand magnifying glass |
| lenticel | any of the raised pores in the stems or branches of woody plants that allow gas exchange between the atmosphere and the internal tissues |
| lentiform | shaped like a lens |
| leptocystidia | smooth thin-walled cystidia |
| lecythiform | of cystidia, wide at base with middle tapered into narrow neck and top swollen into a head, like a bowling pin (lecythiform refers to a Greek stoppered bottle) |
| lichen | a dual organism in which a fungus (usually an ascomycete but occasionally a basidiomycete) maintains a green alga or cyanobacterium captive for mutual benefit |
| lignicolous | living in, on, or out of wood |
| lignin | the organic substance of woody tissue other than cellulose |
| lilac | the color of flowers of the lilac shrub, a pale purple or mauve |
| liver | brown deep reddish brown |
| livid | a dark blue-gray color |
| lobed | with rather large, rounded divisions on the margin |
| long decurrent | refers to decurrent gills that proceed a long way down the stem, for instance proceeding further down the stem than the height of the gills |
| lubricous | greasy or slippery or oily but not viscid (sticky) or slimy |
| luteous | dull egg-yellow |
| lutescent | becoming luteous |