stipeless en · ADJ
Etymology
From stipe + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to mushrooms or other types of fungus that have no stipe or stem.
The main fruiting body is about 1-4 cm wide, spongy as well as dense in texture, flabelliform shaped, with small stipes which become stipeless at maturity.
2023, chapter 14, in Ajay Sharma, Garima Bhardwaj, Gulzar Ahmad Nayik, editors, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the Himalayas, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1982: