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Pluteus depauperatus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Weisslicher Dachpilz
Pluteus deporporatus Mushroom
Ref No: 8762
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Bulbous base of stem
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows on wood

Pluteus depauperatus Romagnesi Weisslicher Dachpilz. Cap 2.5–3.5cm across, convex to flattened, with sulcate-striate margin, hygrophanous, disrupting into tiny ochre-buff scales near the centre, elsewhere pale pinkish-fawn, drying whitish. Stem 25–35 x 3–4mm, white becoming yellow tinged near the bulbous base. Flesh thin, whitish to yellowish or buff. Taste and smell faint, not distinctive. Gills pale pink-buff. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, fusiform or lanceolate. Spore print pink. Spores broadly elliptic to subglobose, 7–8 x 5.5–6.5um. Surface of cap formed of long thin-walled cylindric or clavate elements, 57–170 x 15–34(40)um with bluntly rounded tips. Habitat on rotting wood or sawdust of beech. Season autumn. Uncommon. Edibility unknown –avoid. Found In Europe.

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