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Saprophyteses
Saprophytes Fungi that receive nourishment from dead organic material. This feature helps describe mushroom structure, spore production, or fungal identification.
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Scrobiculates
Scrobiculate Pitted or furrowed. In mushrooms, having rounded depressions on the stipe (stem) of some species, as in Lactarius scrobiculatus
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Sinuates, strongly wavy
Sinuate With a strongly wavy margin. In mushrooms, referring to a type of gill attachment, specifically gills that are notched at their point of attachment to the stipe (stem)
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Sphaerocysts
Sphaerocyst A round swollen cell, usually formed in clusters, found in the fruiting bodies of some mushrooms, characteristically found in the Russulaceae
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Spores, Sporiferous, Sporiferouses
Spore A simple reproductive body used by ferns, fungi, and other lower plants that do not produce seeds
