umbilicate
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Sporangia orbicular, very much depressed, often umbilicate above and concave underneath, stipitate or sessile, gregarious, with the margins of the sporangia sometimes confluent.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Cap compact, convex or umbilicate, zoneless, minutely downy; margin reflexed, gills white, distant, arcuate; stem short, solid, pubescent; milk white, acrid, somewhat scanty.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Sporangium globose, the base slightly flattened or umbilicate, stipitate; the wall a thin membrane, covered with small scales of lime, yellow or greenish-yellow, breaking up and falling away at maturity.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Sometimes they are umbilicate below, so that a vertical section would be obcordate.
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 Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
Physarella oblonga B. & C. Sporangium oblong, the apex re-entrant and confluent with the summit of the columella, the base obtuse or slightly umbilicate, stipitate, cernuous.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
