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plicately

  • a word derived from plicate.
    plicate
    adjective
    Also plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.

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P. soon campan. plicately striate, greyish rufous disc darker; g. free; s. glabrous, white, slightly bulbous.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 1.5-2.5 cm. depr. plicately rugose, whitish; g. broad, subdecurrent; s. 2-2.5 cm. glabrous, bay, apex paler and thickened; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee