umbilicate
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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 Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
Sporangium depressed-globose, the base flattened or umbilicate, stipitate or nearly sessile; the wall smooth, whitish or pale brown, splitting from the apex downward into a few reflexed irregular segments.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
P. 1-2 cm. exp. umbilicate, glabrous, hygr. livid then pale; g. arcuately adfixed, semicircular, broad; s. 2-4 cm. glabrous, pallid, not rooting; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 2-4 cm. exp. umbilicate, glabrous then rugulosely squamulose, dark brown then pale; g. slightly adnexed, broad; s. 5-7 cm. hollow, cylindrical, not rooting, grey; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
