11. The alternately arranged, toothed leaves are decurrent , the bases wrapping the stem to form wings. 12. It grows to 2 metres high and has decurrent phyllodes which are and falcate or sigmoidal in shape. 13. The gills are white, widely spaced, and have a fused or decurrent attachment to the stipe. 14. There are a great number of variations between the extremes of free and decurrent , collectively called attached gills. 15. Leaves are thin-decurrent into a pair of margins that extend for over two-thirds of the internode. 16. "Laccaria " typically have thick, widely spaced, purple to flesh-colored decurrent in attachment. 17. Leaf edges of bases decurrent on stem, the upper leaves oblong to lingulate and constricted at base, toothed. 18. But how could that tie in with Mrs . Lovejoy's comment that the name is for the decurrent gills? 19. The thin crowded wide dark purple gills are adnate to decurrent , and become more rusty brown as the spores mature. 20. The species name " decurrens " " decurrent " is derived from the leaf base running down the stem.
