Deceiver
From the latest record: 2026-08-30.
Gills thick, broad and moderately distant; pinkish-flesh to salmon or pale reddish-brown, becoming paler as spores mature
Convex when young, later broadly convex to flat or centrally depressed; smooth to finely fibrillose; orange-brown, reddish-brown to tan when moist, fading to almost whitish when dry
Adnate to slightly decurrent
Slender, tough and fibrous, cylindrical or tapering toward base; coloured similarly to cap, becoming paler when dry; finely hairy toward base with white basal mycelium; ring absent
Spore print white
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers; alone, scattered or gregariously; forests, woodland edges and heathland; summer to late autumn
Edible but modest; caps usable, stems tough and fibrous
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~2–10 cm long and ~1 cm thick
Cap ∅ ~2–7 cm
Thin, pale orange-brown to buff, unchanging when cut
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Mild, indistinct to faintly radish-like
Mild to faintly radish-like
Spores globose to subglobose, strongly echinulate, ~7–10 µm, with spines ~1–2 µm tall; hyaline, inamyloid; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia filamentous to subclavate; pileipellis a cutis
Highly variable orange-brown woodland deceiver with thick pinkish gills
1884). Grevillea 12(no. 63): 70.
Valgejõe, Harju, Eesti
Mixed forest woodland edge, within nearby birches and raspberyy bushes, near road verge, in sandy mossy soil
59°27'33.8"N 25°43'21.6"E
🌡️ 18°C 🌧️🌥️ Sprinkles, broken clouds 💨 Wind 220° SW->NE, 13 km/h
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