A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Cratera,-ae (s.f.I), also crater,-eris (s.m.III), abl. sg. cratere: cratera, (in fungi) “the cup-shaped receptacle of certain Fungals” (Lindley); (in fungi) “a cup-shaped receptacle” (S&D); the ‘cup’ of the cup-fungi (Ascomycota; Pezizaceae), mushrooms shaped like cups, saucers or goblets; the upper surface of the cup is the spore-producing hymenium;

- [Octospora; fungi] THECAE folliculiformes, clavatae, pellucentes, numerosissimae; cum paraphysibus omnem crateris concavitatem occupant (Hedwig), the thecae are folliculiform [i.e. shaped like little bags], club-shaped, pellucid, very numerous, they fill up the entire concavity of the crater [i.e. cup or bowl] with paraphyses.

- [Octospora; fungi] semina ista, e thecis, aquae guttulae immissis, vi exploduntur: idem vero a madore concavitatis praestari, me edocuit plantula f. 3. exhibita, quae post delineationem in scatulam inclusa, toties fumum quasi de suo cratere spargebat, seminulis illis refertum, quoties eandem inde eximerem (Hedwig), those seeds, from the thecae, when [the thecae] are introduced into a droplet of water, are exploded away with force: it is really essentially the same thing which the little plant, shown in (figure 3.), taught me to be remarkable in the moistening of the concavity, which, after illustration, after having been enclosed in a scatula [i.e. a flat, rectangular box, such as a match-box] dispersed as many times out of its own cup [i.e. crater], almost as a cloud crammed with those same little seeds, as I could have taken from it.

Octospora craterella [craterellus,-a,-um (adj.A) dim. of crater or cratera.]

Crateria (pl.n.II), gen. pl. crateriorum, “ascidia which are derived from the surface of a leaf (C. Schimper)” (Jackson).

Urnula craterium, a cup fungus with an urn-shaped cup, the “Gray Urn.’

(fungi): Craterium; Craterocolla; Crateromyces; Craterella; Craterellus (Ainsworth & Bisby).

Platycrater,-eris (s.f.III), abl. sg. Platycratere: > Gk. platys, broad + kratEr, bowl; “in allusion to the expanded saucer-like calyces of the sterile flowers. Hydrangeaceae.” (Stearn 1996).