Pluteus podospileus Sacc. & Cub. Dunkelbrauner Dachpilz. Cap 1.5–4cm across, convex then expanded and sometimes umbonate, umber to blackish-brown, covered in minute velvety scales. Stem 10–40 x 2–3mm, sometimes slightly bulbous, whitish then dingy brown due to the covering of minute brownish punctate scales. Flesh whitish in cap, greyish to pale brown in stem. Smell slight. Gills white at first then pinkish. Pleurocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, broadly vesiculose, clavate or cylindric. Spore print pink. Spores broadly ovate to subglobose, 4–7 x 3.5–5um. Cap cuticle mixed, comprising sphaeropedunculate cells with projecting fusiform elements. Habitat on rotting deciduous wood. Season summer to autumn. Uncommon. Edibility unknown –avoid. Found In Europe.
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