Glossary of Mycology Terms

Are you trying to decifer Mycologese? You've came to the right place. I've compiled a vast glossary of mycology related terms. Study the terms closely and expand your vocabulary.

Below is a list of every term currently listed in the glossary:

• Abort
• Acrid
• Acute
• Adnate
• Adnexed
• Agaric
• Agaricaceae
• Agaricales
• Amatoxin
• Ampullaceous
• Annular
• Annulate
• Annulus
• Antheridium
• Apical
• Apiculus
• Apothecium
• Appendiculate
• Appressed
• Areolate
• Ascending
• Ascocarp
• Ascogonium
• Ascomycetes
• Ascomycota
• Ascospore
• Ascus
• Aseptate Hyphae
• Autodigestion
• Basal
• Basidiocarp
• Basidiomycetes
• Basidiomycota
• Basidiospores
• Basidium
• Binucleate
• Biodiversity
• Bioindicator
• Bolete
• Brown Rot
• Bruising
• Bulbous
• Campanulate
• Canescent
• Canker
• Cap
• Capillitium
• Chitin
• Chlamydospores
• Chromosome
• Chytridiomycota
• Chytrids
• Clamp Connection
• Clavate
• Coenocytic
• Collared
• Conchate
• Conical
• Conidiophore
• Conidium
• Conifer
• Conk
• Convex
• Coprine
• Coprinoid
• Coprinus syndrome
• Cortina
• Crenate
• Cruciate
• Cuspidate
• Cylindric
• Cystidium
• Cytokinesis
• Cytoplasm
• Deciduous
• Decurrent
• Decurved
• Deliquescence
• Depressed
• Deuteromycota
• Dikarya
• Dikaryotic
• Diploid
• Discomycete
• Ectomycorrhiza
• Elevated
• Emarginate
• Endomycorrhiza
• Endophyte
• Entire
• Equal
• Eroded
• Eukaryote
• Evanescent
• FAE
• Fairy Ring
• Fibrillose
• Fibrils
• Fibrous
• Filament
• Filamentous
• Flesh
• Flexuous
• Floccose
• Free
• Fruiting Body
• Fruticose
• Fugacious
• Fungi / Fungus
• Furfuraceous
• Furrow
• Fusiform
• Gasteromycete
• Germ Pore
• Gill
• Glabrous
• Gleba
• Glutinous
• Granulose
• Gregarious
• Haploid
• Haustorium
• Hemispheric
• Heteromorphic
• Heterotroph
• Hirsute
• Hispid
• Homogeneous
• Homomorphic
• Hyaline
• Hygrophanous
• Hymenium
• Hypha
• Incurved
• Indusium
• Inferior
• Infundibuliform
• Inoperculate
• Inrolled
• Involute
• Karyogamy
• Lamella
• Latex
• Lichen
• Lignicolous
• Median
• Meiosis
• Mitosis
• Monosaccharide
• Monotypic
• Morphology
• Mucilaginous
• Mushroom
• Mycelium
• Mycobiont
• Mycology
• Mycophagy
• Mycophile
• Mycophobe
• Mycorrhiza
• Mycotoxin
• Myxomycetes
• Necrotrophic
• Nidulariaceae
• Nucleate
• Nucleus
• Operculum
• Organelle
• Ostiole
• Ovoid
• Papillate
• Parabolic
• Parasite
• Parasitism
• Parasitoidism
• Partial Veil
• Peridioles
• Peridium
• Perithecium
• Photobiont
• Photosynthesis
• Phyla
• Pileus
• Plane
• Plasmogamy
• Plicate
• Polypore
• Polysaccharides
• Pore
• Primordia
• Pruinose
• Pseudorhiza
• Pubescent
• Pulverulent
• Pulvinate
• Resupinate
• Reticulate
• Revolute
• Rhizoid
• Rhizomorph
• Rimose
• Ring
• Rivulose
• Rufous
• Rugose
• Rugulose
• Rusts
• Saprophyte
• Scabrous
• Scrobiculate
• Seceding
• Septate
• Septum
• Sericeous
• Serrate
• Sessile
• Sinuate
• Skeletal Hypha
• Slime Mold
• Sporangium
• Spore
• Sporocarp
• Sporophore
• Squamose
• Squamulose
• Squarrose
• Stellate
• Sterigma
• Stipe
• Stipitate
• Stolons
• Striate
• Strigose
• Subdecurrent
• Subglobose
• Substrate
• Subtomentose
• Sulcate
• Superior
• Symbiont
• Taxonomy
• Teliospores
• Thallus
• Toadstool
• Tomentose
• Trama
• Truncate
• Tube
• Umbilicate
• Umbo
• Umbonate
• Undulating
• Uplifted
• Velvety
• Ventricose
• Vermiculite
• Verrucose
• Villose
• Vinaceous
• Virgate
• Viscid
• Volva
• Warty
• Xerophilic
• Zonate
• Zoospore
• Zygomycete
• Zygote