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 Pluteus cervinus
SynonymsAgaricus cervinus
BiostatusPresent in region - Origin uncertain
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Caption: Fig. 1. Pluteus cervinus, Schaeff. ; natural size. Fig. 2. Section of portion of pileus of same ;
natural size. Fig. 3. Portion of hymenium, showing a single basidium bearing four spores, two
paraphyses, and one cystidium ; x 400. |
Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Generally solitary. Pileus 4-10 cm. across, flesh white, thick at the disc, becoming very thin
towards the margin, campanulate, then expanded, even, at first glabrous, then becoming
broken up into fibrillose squamules that soon disappear, smoky, with a yellow, brown, or
fawn-coloured tinge; gills free, crowded, 4-8 mm. broad, white, then salmon-colour; spores
broadly elliptical, smooth, 7-8 x 5-6 µ; cystidia ventricose, often spinose at the apex; stem 5-12 cm. long, 1 cm. and more
thick, equal, pale and sprinkled with blackish fibrils, solid.
Habitat: On trunks and stumps.
Distribution: New Zealand. Victoria, Tasmania, Ceylon, South Africa, Europe.
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