stipeless

English

Etymology

From stipe +‎ -less.

Adjective

stipeless (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms or other types of fungus that have no stipe or stem.
   • 2023, chapter 14, in Ajay Sharma, Garima Bhardwaj, Gulzar Ahmad Nayik, editors, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the Himalayas‎^[1], CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1982:

     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.