Meaning of pertusate | Babel Free

Definitions

Pierced (at the apex); perforated.

not-comparable

Examples

“We have not accepted the genus Trematosphaeria as distinct from Melanomma. The basing of a genus upon size and pertusate apex seems insufficient. The latter character is often a condition of age and consequent deciduousness of the neck or ostiolum.”

“The perithecia are not typical of the genus. They are nearly twice as long as wide at the base and although pertusate, are not circularly so. The asci are eight-spored, […]”

“Unexpanded basidiocarps (peridia) 1.5-3 x 1-1.5 cm, white, globose, then ovate, splitting irregularly at apex into several lobes, attached by a white, branched, cord-like mycelium. Pileus Chinese writing brush shaped to narrow campanulate, rutilous, externally finely to coarsely rugulose; lower margin even to irregular; apex becoming truncate at maturity, pertusate at center, 1.5-3.3 cm high, 1-1.5 cm wide, and surface again with greenish brown, mucilaginous, stinking gleba.”

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