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obconic

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/ ɒbˈkɒnɪk /

adjective

  1. botany (of a fruit or similar part) shaped like a cone and attached at the pointed end

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The obconic calyculus is always represented in the outline if not in definite structure.

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)

Perigynium obconic or obovoid, squarrose in exceedingly dense short spikes.—Sp.

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

P. 2-3 cm. soon plane, obtuse, sooty umber; s. 4-7 cm. obconic, sooty; g. plane, crowded; sp. 7-8 � 4. gangraenosa, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-6 cm. convex then plane, naked, grey or brownish; g. decur. down stem, rather distant; s. obconic, fibrillose, 4-5 cm. livid sooty; sp. 6-7 � 4. comitalis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. obconic, convex or almost flattened above; sp. 6-9 � 5-6.5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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