annulate

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This is a beautiful species, easily known by its discoidal or almost annulate sporangia mounted upon short dark black stipes.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

It is highly contractile and when contracted sometimes assumes an annulate appearance; but as a rule the external surface is smooth.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

This species is recognizable at once by its regular, uniform, depressed, annulate or pitted sporangia, scattered evenly over the habitat of rotten leaves or wood.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Ringed, surrounded as with a ring, annulose, annulate: wearing a wedding-ring.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Cross rings may or may not be present, and the cup is either smooth or annulate.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)