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punctate

[puhngk-teyt] / ˈpʌŋk teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
dotted
Synonyms
STRONG




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Corolla dotted or streaked with purple or brown; leaves punctate with dark spots — 12. 11b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason

P. 3-5 cm. soon plane, minutely punctate, tawny, margin striate; g. adnate, pallid; s. 3-4 cm. hollow, coloured like p.; milk whitish, watery; sp. 9-10. var. pauper, Karst.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. soon dry, virgate with darker fibrils, centre squamulosely punctate, flesh reddish; g. rigid, purplish then changing to cinnamon; s. reticulately striate with darker purple-umber fibrils. erubescens, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

It is not shaggy, but is spotted with minute, innate punctate scales.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

P. 3-4 cm. white, umbo brownish, striate to middle; g. decurrent; s. equal, hollow upwards, 4-5 cm., even up to torn ring, punctate above, white; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee




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