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An arbuscular mycorrhiza is a type of mycorrhiza in which the symbiont fungus penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant forming arbuscules. Arbuscular mycorrhizas are characterized by the formation of unique structures, arbuscules and vesicles by fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota. - wiki
You see those little white strands hanging off the root of the plant? Those are arbuscular mycorrhizal.
Adnate gills are attached to the stem just above the bottom of the gill, with most of it fused to the stem.
This Entoloma haastii has adnate gills on it!
The appendiculate of a mushroom is the torn veil pieces hanging off the sides of the fruiting body.
The appendiculate on that mushroom makes it look like it has icicles hanging off of it.
When the gills of a mushroom taper in depth towards the stem, making the attachment of the gills to the stem very slight.
These gills are barely attached to the stem! That must make it adnexed.
The tiny projection on a spore where it is attached to the sterigma at the end of a basidium.
You see the base of the point on this mushroom spore? That's the apiculus.
Ascomycetes is a fungus whose spores develop within asci. The ascomycetes include most molds, mildews, and yeasts, the fungal component of most lichens, and a few large forms such as morels and truffles.
"Wow, we can sell these ascomycetes for twelve bucks each!" "Jason, can't you just say truffle. Knowing this vocabulary doesn't make you a better mycologist, it just makes you a prig."