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rufescent

[roo-fes-uhnt] / ruˈfɛs ənt /


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P. glabrous, thin, exp. umbil. even, brownish, edge lobed; g. thick, crisped, rufescent; s. rigid, fistulose, black.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 1-2 cm. tough, reniform, dry, rufescent then whitish; g. crowded, distinct, white; s.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Similar to No. 758, but back, tail, and flanks without brownish or rufescent tinge.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman

P. 2-3 cm. plano-depr. obtuse, even, glabrous, rufescent then yellowish, hygr.; g. decur. crowded, tawny; s. 4-7 cm. fistulose, naked, narrowed upwards, whitish; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 3-6 cm. campan.-exp. umb. cracked, fibrillose, then torn into scales, pallid then rufescent; g. uncinato-adnate; s. 4-5 cm. solid, glabrous, fibrillose, striate, reddish-white; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee




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