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umbilicate

[uhm-bil-i-kit, -keyt] / ʌmˈbɪl ɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt /
ADJECTIVE
navel
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P. 5-9 cm. soon plane, wavy, viscid, brownish, zones and umbilicate disc darker; g. crowded, whitish; s. solid, narrowed below, pallid; milk white; sp. 7-8.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Sporangium hemispherical, more or less depressed, the base profoundly umbilicate; the wall firm, rugulose, dark-colored and nearly opaque, with a mealy coat of stellate crystals of lime, rupturing irregularly.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Sporangium depressed-globose, umbilicate at the apex, stipitate, cernuous, purplish-brown in color; the calyculus granulose within, occupying from one-fourth to one-third of the sporangium, the ribs united by firm, persistent fibers.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Sporangium depressed-globose, the base umbilicate, stipitate; the wall a thin, violaceous membrane, brownish at the base, with a thin coat of small, white scales and minute granules of lime.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Sporangium depressed-globose, convex above and more or less flattened and umbilicate beneath; the wall shining with steel or violet, blue and purple tints, deciduous.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan




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