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umbilicate

[uhm-bil-i-kit, -keyt] / ʌmˈbɪl ɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt /
ADJECTIVE
navel
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Differs from E. costatum in blackish umbilicate p.; smaller sp. rough, 5-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The latter is usually very short, almost completely concealed in the concavity of the umbilicate sporangium.

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Sporangia globose, sometimes a little depressed, with the base umbilicate; the wall steel-blue with tints of purple and violet, quite persistent, rupturing irregularly.

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

The nodding, lenticular, umbilicate sporangium, barely attached to the apiculate stipe, is sufficient to distinguish this elegant little species, recognized and quite aptly characterized by mycologists for more than one hundred years.

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Sporangium simple, subglobose and stipitate, the base commonly umbilicate, or sometimes sessile and plasmodiocarp.2.

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




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