This is a large genus of fungi with over 300 species; all are wood rotting saprobes with pinkish gills that are free from the stipe.
Cap:- Velvety brown cap about 45-65 mm wide with dark fibrils that radiated out to the margin.
Gills:- distinctly free, crowded, initially white, becoming pinkish as spores mature; margin NOT marked as in P. atromarginatus.
Stipe:- white to greyish brown with elongated brown fibrils; no annulus;
Spore print:- pinkish brown
Pluteus sp. is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | South Coast
Maps
Bermagui State Forest Bodalla State Forest Bruce Ridge Tallaganda State ForestSurvey points
Point 93Places
Bermagui, NSW Dalmeny, NSW Kianga, NSW