Pileus area index

Pileus area index

The Pileus Area Index is the technical name used to denote the size of what is commonly known as the "cap" of a fungal fruiting body. It is particularly characteristic of agarics, boletes, and some polypores, tooth fungi, and ascocarps. It was coined by Asher Tarivona Mutsengi a Zimbabwean student at University of Texas at Austin.

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* [http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Terms/pileu249.html IMA Mycological Dictionary: Pileus]


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