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floccose

[flok-ohs] / ˈflɒk oʊs /


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P. 2-4 cm. thin, umbil. flaccid, floccose, brownish yellow then paler, edge reflexed; g. deep golden yellow; s. 3-5 cm. yellow; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 1-1.5 cm. subumbilicate, at length plicate, pale yellow-brown then whitish; g. broadly adnate, simple, unequal, distant; s. 2-3 cm. floccose or scurfy, reddish-brown; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. conic then exp. umb. fuscous, fibrillosely scaly; g. white then greyish; s. fistulose, slender, floccose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 1-1.5 cm. camp. pale bluish grey, umb. darker, then tan, finely striate; g. whitish, edge darker with minute particles; s. greyish, minutely floccose, rooting and tomentose at base; sp. ——. aurantiomarginata, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 5-9 cm. fragile, plane, subumb. pale brick red, broken up into floccose squamules; g. decurrent, soon ochraceous; s. 5-8 cm. brick red, pruinosely pubescent; milk scanty, white, rather sweet; sp. 8-9.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee




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