Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff. ex Fr.) Kummer Rehbrauner Dachpilz Plutée couleur de cerf Deer Shield. Cap 4–12cm across, bell-shaped then convex to flattened, sepia to dark umber with radiating streaks. Stem 70–100 X 5–15mm, slightly swollen at the base, white becoming streaked with umber fibres. Flesh white. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills white, later dull pink. Cystidia fusoid with thickened walls and crowned with several apical prongs. Spore print pink. Spores broadly elliptic, 7–8 x 5–6um. Habitat on rotting stumps, trunks and sawdust of deciduous trees. Season early summer to late autumn, but also sporadically throughout the year. Very common. Edible – not worthwhile, some members of a foray group in north America were taken ill after eating it. Distribution, America and Europe.