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revolute

[rev-uh-loot] / ˈrɛv əˌlut /


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The cap has a smooth, not polished, surface, and is very irregular, revolute, and deflexed, not honeycombed like the Morel, nor showing the brain-like convolutions of the Gyromitras.

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

Corolla various in shape; the limb 4–5-cleft, revolute.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

P. 4-7 cm. convexo-plane, mouse-colour, with revolute, squarrose scales; g. grey then fuscous; s. 4-7 cm. thickened upwards, with rings of reflexed scales, pale above ring; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Cap at first oblong or cylindrical, then campanulate, the cuticle breaking into shaggy fibrous scales, color whitish, the scales generally yellow or yellowish, margin revolute and lacerated, soon becoming black.

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

P. exp. even, glabrous, viscid, yellowish-livid then tan; g. adnato-decur. broad, white then blackish; s. solid, with white revolute squarrose white scales below the ample ring; sp. 11-14 � 6-8.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George




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