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PLUTEUS
TROGIA CRISPA Fr. Not edible
Figure 240, page 153; Figure 419, page 299
PILEUS 1/4-% in. broad, sessile, sometimes resupinate, shell-shaped, or
shelf-Hke, sometimes overlapping, incurved when dry, reviving and spreading
out when moist, reddish yellow to tan colored, covered with whitish hairs
when young, lamellae whitish to bluish gray, vein-like, very narrow, irregular,
crisped, edges blunt, spores white, cylindric to allantoid, 3-4 X 1-1.5 fi.
Crowded to scattered on dead branches of frondose trees, fairly common.
May-Nov.
This tiny mushroom is of no interest as food and is not very conspicuous
when it is dry, but when it is moist the large clusters and beautifully crisped
lamellae are sure to attract attention.
PLUTEUS
Pluteus includes species with a pink spore deposit, lamellae free from the
stipe, and lacking both annulus and volva. The stipe is central and easily
separable from the pileus. Pluteus species usually occur on old logs and stumps
or on some form of decayed wood. Except for the common P. cervinus most of
them are too small to be of much value as food. They are typically soft in
consistency and decay rapidly.
Key
1. Pileus and stipe yellow and glabrous P. admirabilis
1. Pileus brown 2
2. Lamellae black on the edge P. atromarginatus
2. Lamellae not differently colored on edge P. cervinus
PLUTEUS ADMIRABILIS (Pk.) Pk.
Figure 241, page 153
PILEUS Yz-lYz
in. broad, fleshy-pliant, campanulate when very young,
becoming expanded-campanulate to expanded-convex, at first subumbonate,
at length slightly depressed on the disk, moist, hygrophanous, glabrous, un-
polished, somewhat wrinkled especially on the disk, deep yellow, at times
tinged ohve-yellow, dusky yellow around wrinkles of the disk, margin striate
when moist, flesh very thin, white or whitish, dry and pithy, odor and taste
not distinctive, lamellae free, close, broad, broadest next to the stipe, soft and
fragile, at first very pale yellowish, becoming sordid pinkish, stipe 1-2 in. long,
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