Pluteus sp.

This is a large genus of fungi with over 300 species; all are wood rotting saprobes with pinkish gills that are free from the stipe.

Cap:- Velvety brown cap about 45-65 mm wide with dark fibrils that radiated out to the margin.

Gills:- distinctly free, crowded, initially white, becoming pinkish as spores mature; margin NOT marked as in P. atromarginatus.

Stipe:- white to greyish brown with elongated brown fibrils; no annulus;

Spore print:- pinkish brown

Regional distribution

Pluteus sp. is listed in the following regions: