fibrillose
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- fibrillosis noun
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Often confounded with n. 34, but easily distinguished by the non-cespitose habit, sheaths not fibrillose, and the short scales very obtuse.
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Pileus equally fleshy, dry, at first scaly, fibrillose or innately silky, not hygrophanous.
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It is generally white, soft, slightly spongy, cottony, at times fibrillose or even slightly fibrous, again in texture comparable to the spider's web, and may be even powdery or glutinous.
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The pileus is small, about one and a half inches broad, rather fleshy, tough; convex, then flattened, soon depressed around the conical umbo; fibrillose, becoming smooth; smoky gray, somewhat streaked; moist; margin involute, naked.
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The veil is only seen in the young stage, and then is very delicate and fibrillose.
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