Phylloporus pelletieri
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Boletales
- Family: Boletaceae
- Genus: Phylloporus (Filloporus)
- Species: Phylloporus pelletieri (Phylloporus rose-golden)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Xerocomus pelletieri
Synonyms:
- Agaricus pelletieri
- Agaricus paradoxus
- Boletus paradoxus
- Clitocybe pelletieri
- Flammula paradoxa
- Paxillus paradoxus
- Paxillus paradoxus
- Paxillus pelletieri
- Phylloporus paradoxus
- Xerocomus pelletieri
Description
Hat: 4 to 7 cm in diameter, while the mushroom is young – hemispherical, later – flattened, somewhat depressed; the thin edge first curls up and then hangs down slightly. Dry, reddish-brown skin, somewhat velvety in young specimens, smooth and easily cracking in mature specimens.
Plates: thick, bridged, with a feeling of a wax coating, labyrinthine-branched, descending, yellow-gold in color.
Stem: cylindrical, curved, with longitudinal ribs, yellowish to ocher, with fine fibers of the same color as the cap.
Flesh: not very firm, purple-brown on the cap and yellowish-white on the stem, weak smell and taste.
Spread
In summer, it grows in groups under oak, chestnut, and less often under conifers.
Edibility
It is quite an edible mushroom, but without any culinary value due to its rarity and low meatiness.
Notes: In 2003, based on a phylogenetic investigation, comrades Bresinsky & Binder suggested that Phylloporus belonged to Xerocomus and renamed the mushroom, but as far as I understand, the new name has not become official.
The species is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine with the status of 'Disappearing'
Photo: champignons.aveyron.free.fr, Valery.
