Pluteus flavofuligineus

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

Dark Pluteus Section

Cap brown, dark brown or blackish

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Bright Pluteus Section

Cap bright red, orange, yellow, or fulvous

Pluteus flavofuligineus G. F. Atkinson

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 3" across; minutely scurfy; dark brown, olive brown, or yellow mixed with black when young, becoming more and more fulvous with age until entirely so
Stem pinkish when young, becoming yellower with age
On deciduous wood