umbonate
Americanadjective
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having an umbo or projecting boss.
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shaped like an umbo; having a rounded convex form.
an umbonate fungus.
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P. conico-campan. fibrillose, umbonate, cracked when exp. whitish- or yellowish-rufescent, scaly disc darker; g. crowded, olive then pallid fuscescent; s. shining, fibrillose, wavy, whitish rufescent.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The umbonate pileus and the nearly free, broad, gray gills will distinguish it.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Cap reddish or pinkish, broadly umbonate and clothed with adpressed scales; gills whitish, free, and close; stem nearly equal or slightly thickened at the base, with a well-developed persistent white or pinkish ring.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
P. convex then plane, umbonate, fuscescent, hoary-rusty when dry; g. crowded, obscure rusty; s. filiform, silky fibrillose, pallid. abstrusa, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
This genus might be mistaken for Omphalia, in which the gills are but slightly decurrent, but in Omphalia the cap is umbilicate while in Mycena it is umbonate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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