Pluteus cervinus



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.


TricholomaAgaricales     Order
Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)


Pink Spored     Suborder
Spores pink or reddish



Pluteus cervinusPlutaceae     Family
Gills free
Often growing on wood



Pluteus petasatusPluteus     Genus
Lacking a volva
Growing on wood or woody debris
Typically bluntly conical or campanulate when young, becoming umbonate (often a flat cap with a very small umbo) in age
Often somewhat scaly or fibrillose on the disk


Pluteus cervinusDark Pluteus     Section
Cap brown, dark brown or blackish


Pluteus cervinus     (Ja.C. Schaeffer: Fries) Kummer

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.


Pluteus cervinus

Diagnosis


Microscropic Characters





Pluteus cervinus

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Pluteus cervinusThis is the most common species of Pluteus
Some people recognize a second species, P. magnus, for the robust, dark-capped, often wrinkled version (shown in our first picture here)


 

 


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