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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

Stem thin, equal, fistulose or medullate, even, velvety, floccose or pruinose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-5 cm. across, campan. whitish, apex tinged brown, at first with evanescent floccose scales; g. reaching stem; s. 8-12 cm. smooth, white, hollow, swollen at base and rooting; sp. 10-11 � 6-7.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. convexo-plane, umb. with rusty floccose squamules that disappear; g. adnate, very broad, yellow; s. spongy, yellow; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 1-1.5 cm. subumbilicate, at length plicate, pale yellow-brown then whitish; g. broadly adnate, simple, unequal, distant; s. 2-3 cm. floccose or scurfy, reddish-brown; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George




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