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floccose

[flok-ohs] / ˈflɒk oʊs /


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P. 5-9 cm. fragile, plane, subumb. pale brick red, broken up into floccose squamules; g. decurrent, soon ochraceous; s. 5-8 cm. brick red, pruinosely pubescent; milk scanty, white, rather sweet; sp. 8-9.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-5 cm. exp. obtuse, rugulose, smoky, sprinkled with floccose bloom; g. flesh-colour; 3-4 cm. solid, rigid, striate, white; sp. subgl. echin. 5-6. var. lutescens, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-4 cm. convex, umb. rusty-brown, densely floccose with innate scales; g. dusky brown; s. 4-7 cm. slender, equal, with adpressed rusty-brown scales; sp. 8-9 � 5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. subcampan. greyish yellow, with a floccose greyish white veil then pubescent, sulcate, 4-5 mm.; g. free; s. 5-7 cm. white, downy, striate, base swollen; sp. 7-8 � 6-7.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. umbil. striate; g. arcuate; s. filiform, base white floccose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George




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