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rufescent

[roo-fes-uhnt] / ruˈfɛs ənt /


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P. 7-10 cm. expanded, margin at first involute, sulcate and rugulose, viscid, whitish then tinged rufous; g. narrow rufescent; s. 5-8 cm. pale, apex squamulose; sp. subg. 5-6. militare, Lasch.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Similar to No. 758, but back, tail, and flanks without brownish or rufescent tinge.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

P. 2-4 cm. obtuse, flaccid, glabrous, rufescent then pallid; g. closely crowded; s. 6-12 cm. more or less compressed, rufous, everywhere with white down; sp. subgl. 7-9.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. dry, convex, plane, umb. very minutely downy-squamulose, whitish then rufescent, edge striate, toothed; g. ventricose, pallid; s. fistulose, tough, scabrid-squamulose, tawny, strigose below. effugiens, Q. Very minute.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 1-2 cm. dimidiate, sessile and fixed by a downy nodule, white, marginate behind, variegated with minute rufescent scales; g. radiating from base, at length brownish rusty; sp. ——. haustellaris, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George




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