decurrent
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Origin of decurrent
1745–55; < Latin dēcurrent- (stem of dēcurrēns ) running down (present participle of dēcurrere, equivalent to dē- de- + currere to run); see current
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Differs from M. vitrea in decurrent tooth to gills. vitrea, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Biennial; leaves decurrent, sinuate, spiny; heads solitary, drooping; flowers purple.—Fields near Harrisburg, Pa., Prof. Porter.
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
Margin of pileus persistently involute; gills decurrent or adnato-decurrent.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 1 cm. convex, dark disc becoming depr. greyish with brown lines; g. plane then decurrent, shining white; s. 3-4 cm. tough, polished, fibrillosely rooting; sp. ——. tenella, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Leaves succubous, dorsally decurrent, obliquely ovate-oblong, broadly truncate or bidentate; underleaves smaller, more or less quadrate, bifid or with 4–8 capillary lobes.
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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