Velvet Shield - Pluteus umbrosus
The cap is sepia to dark brown and covered in darker squamules, often in radial streaks; wrinkled and velevety in apprearance. The gills are pinkish with a dark brown squamulous edge. The stipe is whitish to pale brown, with dark squamules.
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe; note habitat and substrate.
Fallen branches and stumps, mainly of deciduous trees; also sawdust heaps
Found in late summer and autumn
Widespread, rather uncommon (Kibby V2, 2020)
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge NR
02 October 2005
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
brown gill-edges.
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
22 October 2023
gills have brown edges
Peter Smith
Leicester, Pioneer Park
17 November 2021
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
22 October 2023
cap darker in middle
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
22 October 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Velvet Shield
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Pluteaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 02/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 22/10/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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