A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

spadiceus,-a,-um (adj.A): spadiceous, date-colored, a deep reddish-brown; “bright brown; pure and very clear brown” (Lindley); = spadix,-icis (adj.B): “date-brown, nut-brown, chestnut-brown;”

- (fungus) [Hydnum spadiceum] Prope sane ad Sistotremata accedit. Pileus nec striatus, nec fasciatus, tomento molli velutino pulchre brunneo aequaliter tectus (S&A), it approaches quite near to Sistotrema. The pileus is neither striate, nor fasciated [i.e. marked with bands, or grown together side-by-side], evenly covered with a soft, velvety tomentum, a beautiful brown.

- pileus in statu etiam humido colore variat, pallens, rufescens, livens, subspadiceus, fuscescens (S&A), the pileus even in a moist state varies in color, being pale, somewhat red, livid [i.e.bluish-gray], nearly date-colored [i.e. a deep reddish brown], becoming blackish-brown.

- pileo subcarnoso striato-squamuloso umbilicato e spadiceo nigro (S&A), with the pileus somewhat fleshy, striate-squamulose, umbilicate from ‘a deep reddish-brown’ black.

- (fungus) Tuber [virens, a species of the genus Tuber] majus lobato - difforme, subreticulatum, extus e rufo griseum vel sordide spadiceum, intus e viridi cinerascens (S&A), a Tuber [that is larger, or that is more] lobate-misshapen, lax, somewhat reticulate, externally pure gray from reddish [i.e. reddish to a pure gray] or dingy red-brown, internally grayish from green [i.e. green to grayish].

- semina lucida, oblonga, spadicea (DeCandolle), seeds shining, oblong, bright brown.

- bracteolis prominentibus apiculatis, seminibus spadiceis, ala cuspidata (F. Mueller), with the bracteoles prominent, apiculate, with the seeds date-colored [i.e. a deep, reddish-brown], with the wing cuspidate.

- seminibus lucenti-spadiceis (F. Mueller), with the seeds shining-red-brown.

- valvae extus spadiceae, nitentes, reticulato-venosae, intus sordide fuscae (F. Mueller), the valves externally spadiceous [i.e.deep reddish-brown], shining, reticulate-veined, internally a dirty blackish-brown.

- seminibus minutis reniformi-pyriformibus splendenti-spadiceis subtilissime seriato-punctulatis (F. Mueller), with the seeds tiny, kidney-shaped to pyriform, gleaming-spadiceous [i.e. chestnut-brown], very slightly seriate-punctulate [i.e. with tiny punctae in rows].

- (fungus) pileus squamis majusculis laevibus arcte appressis ferrugineo - spadiceis tessellatus (S&A), the pileus checkered with somewhat large, smooth, closely appressed rust-red to red-brown scales.

subspadiceus,-a,-um (adj.A): nearly or somewhat spadiceous.

Dicranum spadiceum, an acrocarpous moss, a yellow-brown plant covered with reddish brown rhizoids; Scleroderma spacideum (a fungus); Psathyrella spadicea is a mushroom with a deep red-brown cap (pileus) and a reddish to red-brown spore print (Miller); (fungus) Amanita spadicea: pileus margine sulcatus, fulvus sive e rufo badius (S&A), pileus sulcate on the margin, blackish-brown from reddish to reddish-brown.