| 11. | The alternately arranged, toothed leaves are decurrent, the bases wrapping the stem to form wings.
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| 12. | It grows to 2 metres high and has decurrent phyllodes which are and falcate or sigmoidal in shape.
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| 13. | The gills are white, widely spaced, and have a fused or decurrent attachment to the stipe.
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| 14. | There are a great number of variations between the extremes of free and decurrent, collectively called attached gills.
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| 15. | Leaves are thin-decurrent into a pair of margins that extend for over two-thirds of the internode.
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| 16. | "Laccaria " typically have thick, widely spaced, purple to flesh-colored decurrent in attachment.
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| 17. | Leaf edges of bases decurrent on stem, the upper leaves oblong to lingulate and constricted at base, toothed.
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| 18. | But how could that tie in with Mrs . Lovejoy's comment that the name is for the decurrent gills?
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| 19. | The thin crowded wide dark purple gills are adnate to decurrent, and become more rusty brown as the spores mature.
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| 20. | The species name " decurrens " " decurrent " is derived from the leaf base running down the stem.
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