Pluteus leoninus, commonly known as lion shield, can occasionally be found growing on dead wood in Europe and North Africa. The underside of the cap is typical of the genus Pluteus — the gills are pale, soon becoming pink when the spores ripen. But the upper surface is a bright tawny or olivaceous yellow. The species name leoninus (meaning leonine) refers to this cap colour.
| Pluteus leoninus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Pluteaceae |
| Genus: | Pluteus |
| Species: | P. leoninus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pluteus leoninus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pluteus fayodii | |
Pluteus leoninus | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is free |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is salmon |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is edible |
Description
editThis description is combined from several references.[1][2][3][4]
- The golden to olive-yellow convex cap is 3–7 cm in diameter, is hygrophanous, and usually has a grooved edge. The darker central disc has a slight velvety tomentum.
- The gills are yellowish at first, then salmon pink (the colour of the spore powder).
- The stipe is up to about 7 cm, often striate, being white to cream, and often darker near the base.
- The mushroom grows on stumps and wood debris of broad-leaved trees and sometimes of conifers.
- At the microscopic level, the filamentous cap cuticle is a trichoderm. The gills have scanty bladder-shaped pleurocystidia, and abundant fusiform cheilocystidia. The spores are smooth, almost globular, approximately 7×6 μm.
Many authorities consider Pluteus fayodii to be a synonym of P. leoninus,[5][2][6] but according to Species Fungorum, they are distinct.[7]
Edibility
editAccording to some sources,[8][9] it is edible but has little to no taste.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Meinhard Moser: Basidiomycetes II: Röhrlinge und Blätterpilze, Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart (1978). English edition: translated by Simon Plant: Keys to Agarics and Boleti (Roger Phillips 1983)
- ^ a b Courtecuisse, Régis (1999) "Collins Guide to the Mushrooms of Britain and Europe" HarperCollins, London ISBN 0-00-220012-0.
- ^ Courtecuisse, R. & Duhem, B. (1994) "Guide des champignons de France et d'Europe" Delachaux et Niestlé, ISBN 2-603-00953-2, also available in English.
- ^ Roger Phillips : "Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe" (Pan Books Ltd., London 1981).
- ^ Marcel Bon (1987). The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-Western Europe. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 262. ISBN 0-340-39935-X.
- ^ Guillaume Eyssartier, Pierre Roux (2013) "Le Guide des Champignons France et Europe" Editions Belin, Paris ISBN 978-2-7011-8289-6
- ^ See page for Pluteus fayodii in Species Fungorum.
- ^ "ベニヒダタケ Pluteus leoninus ウラベニガサ科 Pluteaceae ウラベニガサ属 三河の植物観察野草".
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