Ruminate (ruminatus). Marked with irregular fissures.

Runcinate (runcinatus). Pinnately cleft with pointed recurved lobes.

Saccate (saccatus). Provided with a pouch-shaped appendage.

Sagittate (sagittatus). Arrow-shaped, i.e., with two acute basal lobes directed downwards.

Salver-shaped (hypocraterimorphus). With a long and narrow tube and a spreading limb.

Saprophyte (saprophytum). A plant living upon decaying organic matter.

Scale (squama). A reduced leaf usually destitute of green colour, or a similar outgrowth of the skin of a plant.

Scape (scapus). A leafless stalk of an inflorescence rising from the ground.

Scarious (scariosus). Dry and membranous.

Schizocarp (schizocarpium, fructus in coccos secedens). A fruit separating into several usually nut-like mericarps.