Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pluteus atricapillus
 
   
   
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Basionym: Agaricus atricapillus Batsch, Elenchus fungorum, continvatio prima (Halle): 77. 1786.

Pluteus atricapillus (Batsch) Fayod, Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 7 9: 364. 1889.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 4.5-6 cm, flat, grayish brown, fibrillose, margin entire. Gills free, crowded of several lengths, pale red, sinuate. Stipe central, 4.5-5.5 × 0.5-1 cm, solid, white, tomentous, base with brown scales. Spore print pale red, spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 6-7 × 4.5-5 μm. Cystidia clavate. Hyphae without clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Wushe, on rotten wood, 4 July 1996, CWN 01615 (TNM F0004959).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Gregarious on wood in lowland.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Cosmopolitan.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible.