squamulose
IPA: skwˈɑmjʌɫoʊs
adjective
- (botany, mycology, zoology) Having small scales.
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Examples of "squamulose" in Sentences
- Crustose, leprose and squamulose varieties are more tolerant of poor air.
- (granular) or with minute scales (squamulose) shining like satin, or kid-like in its texture.
- (squamulose), rough (scabrous), dotted, lacerated, or be marked with a network of veins (reticulated).
- (floccose squamulose), and covered with a yellow powder (pulverulent), sometimes with cracks (rimose).
- The = pileus = is thin, convex or later expanded, of a watery appearance, nearly smooth or scurfy or slightly squamulose.
- It is dry, on the center finely tomentose to minutely squamulose, sometimes the scales splitting up into concentric rows around the cap.
- +Cap+ a golden brown or bright cinnamon color, 1½ to 4 inches broad, umbonate, silky, shining, squamulose, with yellowish fibrils, and then smooth.
- P. 6-10 cm. plane, margin striate, grey, yellow, brown, or white; g. pallid; s. 10-12 cm. narrowed upwards, minutely squamulose, volva large, margin free; sp.
- = Stem = cylindrical, even, twisted somewhat, white, striate and minutely squamulose like the pileus, but with coarser scales, especially toward the base, solid, flesh white.
- The pileus is expanded, umbonate, thin except at the umbo, minutely floccose squamulose, no pinkish tinge noted; the flesh is white, but on the umbo changing to flesh color where wounded.
- Thallus usually verrucose, areolate or subareolate, tending toward squamulose conditions, better developed than in other members of the family, scarcely ever showing granulate conditions, and never disappearing entirely; apothecia also larger than in the other genera, adnate to immersed, usually black, but rarely white-pruinose; hypothecium usually dark brown; hymenium pale to light brown; spores