mushroom cap
The upper part of many mushroom fruiting bodies, supporting and protecting the spore-producing surface beneath it.
pileus of a representative agaric mushroom (sopphatt / mushroom cap)
All languages
- English
- mushroom cap
- Norwegian
- sopphatt
- Japanese
- キノコの傘 — きのこのかさ — kinokonokasa
- Korean
- 버섯 갓 — beoseot gat
- Spanish
- sombrero de la seta
- French
- chapeau de champignon
- German
- Pilzhut
Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.
Reference sources
- Store norske leksikon — hattsopper are fungi whose fruitbodies have a cap; the cap is a shared morphological feature of many gilled and pored mushrooms
- OpenStax Biology 2e — mushroom-producing basidiomycetes commonly bear gill-like structures on the underside of the cap
- Store norske leksikon — the familiar stalk-and-cap mushroom is a fruitbody bearing the spore-forming structures