🍄 Family

Pluteaceae

11 species · Fungi

Fungi › Basidiomycota › Agaricomycetes › Agaricales › Pluteaceae

Pluteus podospileus is a brown-capped mushroom that grows on wood in disturbed areas.

Pluteus readiarum G.Stev. is a mushroom species with distinct physical and spore characteristics described here.

Pluteus leoninus is a wood-dwelling mushroom with a yellowish convex cap, defined microscopic features, with debated synonymy to Pluteus fayodii.

Pluteus cervinus is a mushroom that grows on wood, with young edible specimens, found commonly in Europe and eastern North America.

Pluteus salicinus is a gray-capped wood-rotting mushroom distributed across western Europe and Siberia.

Pluteus exilis is a saprophytic wood-decay mushroom found on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

Pluteus americanus is a brown-capped mushroom with pink spores that grows on hardwood in North America and the Russian Far East.

Volvopluteus gloiocephalus is a widely distributed saprotrophic edible mushroom often confused with toxic Amanita species.

Volvariella bombycina, the silky volvariella, is an uncommon protected edible saprobic mushroom with a wide global distribution.

Volvariella volvacea, the edible straw mushroom, is often confused with the toxic death cap, causing occasional accidental poisoning.

Volvariella surrecta is a rare, non-edible parasitic mushroom that grows on other larger fungal fruit bodies.

Related Families

Amanitaceae 87 species Agaricaceae 83 species Tricholomataceae 66 species Hygrophoraceae 63 species Hymenogastraceae 59 species Mycenaceae 53 species Cortinariaceae 40 species Strophariaceae 39 species

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