Pluteus phlebophorus (Basidiomycetes)
General description:
Of the Collection
Cap - 52mm, brown, umbonate, strongly venose at darker brown centre, wrinkly veins radiating strongly outward toward the margin. Margin non striate.
Stem - 45mm x 4mm, cylindrical, white-straw, longitudinally striate, base swollen.
Gills - white to pink, free, edge concolorous-paler, differing lengths.
Spores - subglobose, ellipsoid, 6.8 x 4.5 (5.7)
Cheilocystidia - Utriforme
Single specimen, Fruiting on dead fallen branch of deciduous tree, most likely Hornbeam.
