Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pluteus petasatus
 
   
   
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Basionym: Agaricus petasatus Fr., Epicrisis systematis mycologici (Uppsala): 142. 1838.

Pluteus petasatus (Fr.) Gillet, Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 395. 1876.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 5-8 cm, flat, pale brown, glabrous, margin striate. Gills free, crowded of several lengths, white to pale red, entire. Stipe central, 7-12 × 0.6-1 cm, solid, white, glabrous. Spore print pale red, spores broadly elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 4-7 × 3-4 μm. Hyphae without clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Yilan: Chilan, on rotten wood, 25 Apr. 1995, CWN 00801 (TNM F0003311).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Gregarious on sawdust in lowland.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Europe and North America.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Breitenbach, J. and Kranzlin, E. 1995; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible.