A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

udus,-a,-um (adj.A): damp, moist, soaked, wet, humid; soaked; see moist;

Uda [sc. loca], wet, moist, damp places; abl.pl. in locis udis, in wet places.

- nascitur in umbrosissimis udis (saepe in ipsa paene aqua) ad folia ramulosque putridos dejectos, it grows in the shadiest moist (places, i.e. locis udis) (often almost in the very water, i.e. in the water itself) on leaves and fallen rotten branches.

- in pratis graminosis basalticis passim udis secus partes fluvii Victoria; superiores (F. Mueller), in grassy basaltic wet meadows everywhere along the upper parts of the river Victoria.

- (fungus) [Sphaeria carpophila, ‘fruit-loving’] in pericarpiis nucum Fagi dejectis semiputribus udis juxta fontes rivulosque (S&A), on the pericarpia of fallen half-rotted beech nuts, in moist places [sc. locis] beside springs and brooks.

- non tantum in truncis ramisque dejectis putredine tactis vulgaris est; sed et in foliis aliisque quisquiliis humi jacentibus udis (S&A), not only is it common on fallen trunks and branches touched with rot, but also on wet leaves and other litter fallen on the ground.

- in molendinariis parietibus, circa fossas udas in loco nuncupato ‘Quarto’ (Mich.), on the walls of mills, around wet ditches in the place called the ‘Quarto.’

Cardamine glacialis, in locis udis Terrae del Fuego fere sub nive (DeCandolle), in wet places of Terra del Fuego almost beneath the snow.

Naematoloma udum, a mushroom with a moist cap; Brachythecium udum, a pleurocarpous moss of moist to wet habitats.