A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

glebosus (glaebosus),-a,-um (adj.A), glebulentus (glaebulentus),-a,-um (adj.A): lumpy, full of lumps, full of clods; broken up or cracked, as if plowed; full of small masses, round protuberances; glebose, glebous,(in fungi) “(of surfaces) abounding in clods; turfy” (S&D) [> L. [gleba,-ae (s.f.I), a small piece or lump of earth]; see lumpy.

lump: a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape [> L. [gleba,-ae (s.f.I), a small piece or lump of earth].

- [lichen] lichen fronde [=thallus] rotunde lobata, inferne nigerrima glebosa (Necker), lichen frond [i.e. thallus] rounded-lobed, below very (glossy) black, lumpy.

[Lichenized fungus] Lepidoma glebulosum (=Lichen glebulosus). ‘Clodded lepidome.’ Crust tiled-like, greenish white; lobes small, rounded, convex; apothecia convex, brown-red, at least blackish (S.Gray). = Psora glebulosa (broken-crusted brown-shielded Psora); thallus distinct imbricated with minutely lobed glaucous-white tumid adherent scales (Smith in Hooker).

FUNGI: Hyposphericae. Division Glebosae including Sphaeria.