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revolute

[rev-uh-loot] / ˈrɛv əˌlut /


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Perianth-segments strongly revolute Turk's-cap Lily, Lilium superbum. 18b.

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

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

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

Cap with border revolute, i. e., rolled backward.

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

Capsule pedicelled, oblong-pyriform, dehiscing by 5–8 revolute segments.

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




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