pileus

NOUN
  1. a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
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  • CO2, levels above 1,000 ppm repress expansion of the pileus and stimulate stipe growth in a wide variety of commercially-grown species, leading to spindly mushrooms in high CO2 conditions.
  • A closely related species is _L. pergamenus_ (Swartz) Fr., which resembles it very closely, but has a longer, stuffed stem, and thinner, more pliant pileus, which is more frequently irregular and eccentric, and not at first umbilicate. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • The = stem = is cylindrical, equal, smooth, fistulose, of the same color as the pileus, becoming darker, and often with whitish fibrils at the base. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • Again, the gills are _arcuate_ when they arch from the stem to the edge of the pileus, and _ventricose_ when they are bellied out vertically toward the earth. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • According to the descriptions of _P. dryinus_ as given by Persoon, and as followed by Fries and most later writers, the pileus is definitely lateral, and more or less dimidiate, while in _P. corticatus_ Fr., the pileus is entire and the stem rather long and eccentric. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • From these lateral stemmed species there is an easy transition to the stemless forms which are sessile, that is, the shelving forms where the pileus is itself attached to the trunk, or other object of support on which it grows. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • The = pileus = varies from a regular wedge-shape to spathulate, or more or less irregularly petaloid, or conchoid forms, the extremes of size and form being shown in Figs. 112, 113. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • At some point, right through here, you are going to see what is called a pileus cap right there going through the top of what would be the top of a thunderstorm, if there were as a thunderstorm there. CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2009
  • The pileus ultrastructure of Pleurotus ostreatus was investigated with transmission electron microscope.
  • The = pileus = is first umbilicate or depressed, becoming depressed or infundibuliform, irregular, eccentric, the margin repand, and sometimes lobed, and lobes appearing at times on the upper surface of the cap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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