Pluteus admirabilis

Key to Gilled Mushrooms Key

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Agaricales Order

Lacking a volva
Growing on wood or woody debris
Typically bluntly conical or campanulate when young, becoming umbonate (often a flat cap with a very small umbo) in age
Often somewhat scaly or fibrillose on the disk

Bright Pluteus Section

Cap bright red, orange, yellow, or fulvous

Pluteus admirabilis (Peck) Peck

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.

Diagnosis

Cap up to 1 1/4" across; bright yellow when young, becoming fulvous in age; sometimes wrinkled at the disk
Stem yellow
Gills white or yellow, before becoming colored by spores
On deciduous wood

Microscropic Characters

Spores 5-7 x 4.5-6 µm
Cap cuticle cellular

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Pluteus admirabilis

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Spores pink or reddish

Gills free Often growing on wood

Lacking a volva Growing on wood or woody debris Typically bluntly conical or campanulate when young, becoming umbonate (often a flat cap with a very small umbo) in age Often somewhat scaly or fibrillose on the disk

Cap bright red, orange, yellow, or fulvous

Pluteus admirabilis (Peck) Peck

Diagnosis

Microscropic Characters

Gills free
Often growing on wood

Lacking a volva
Growing on wood or woody debris
Typically bluntly conical or campanulate when young, becoming umbonate (often a flat cap with a very small umbo) in age
Often somewhat scaly or fibrillose on the disk