Pluteus leoninus    (Schaeff.:Fr.) P. Kumm. 

common name(s) : Lion Shield, Lion Pluteus 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Pluteaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Pluteaceae  

synonyms: Pluteus fayodii, Pluteus luteomarginatus, Pluteus sororiatus 

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Pluteus leoninus
photo gallery of  Pluteus leoninus potential confusions with  Pluteus leoninus toxicity of Pluteus leoninus genus Pluteus  

The cap is lemon yellow to golden yellow, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is whitish, brown towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white, brown in stem base, unchanging; its taste is faint; the odour is faint, of radish; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, cream yellowish, then pink, free, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 22 ). The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, on dead wood (beech, birch, oak, alder).

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 2 and 10 mm)

Distinctive features : golden-yellow edge of gills

Pluteus leoninus is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Pluteus leoninus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Pluteus leoninus in the forest of Rambouillet



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