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Meaning of "decurrent"
decurrent (adjective): In biology, this term is used to describe a type of growth pattern where a structure, such as a leaf or a fungal attachment, extends downward or backward from its point of origin
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- Pertaining to plant parts that extend downward, most often applied to leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem.
- Pertaining to lamellae (the gills of a mushroom) that are broadly attached and extend down the stipe of the mushroom.
- running or extending downwards.
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This petiole is strongly decurrent down the stem.
They are decurrent with a lot of interspacing gills and are generally thin.
They are cuneate and decurrent at base.
The decurrent and widely spaced gills are the same colour as the cap.
The sessile phyllodes are decurrent on branchlets.
The decurrent tooth occasionally separates from the stipe and forms a collar around it.
The crowded gills have a decurrent attachment to the stipe.
The gills are grey, rather thick and a little decurrent.
The gills have an adnate to somewhat decurrent attachment to the stipe.
The gills are dirty white, crowded and a little decurrent.
The frond is attached by a large decurrent base to a stem assignable to Medullosa noei.
The crowded gills are decurrent.
The widely spaced decurrent gills are waxy in texture, with a hairy surface from the cystidia.
If there is a stem, it is normally eccentric and the gills are decurrent along it.
The leaves are simple, net-veined and their bases partly wrap around the stem decurrent.
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In addition, the latter species does not have decurrent leaf bases.
Omphalina is a genus of small agarics with white, nonamyloid, basidiospores and decurrent gills.
They become smaller higher up the stem, and less strongly decurrent down the stem.
The stipe attachment is adnate or arcuate, but later develops a pronounced decurrent tooth.
They are largely free of the stipe, but sometimes have a small decurrent tooth.
Recognized by sight: It's not laeta, which has decurrent gills.
