Veined whip (Pluteus phlebophorus)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Pluteaceae (Pluteaceae)
- Genus: Pluteus (Pluteus)
- Type: Pluteus phlebophorus (veiny pluteus)
- Agaricus phlebophorus
- Pluteus chrysophaeus.
Veined Pluteus (Pluteus phlebophorus) is a fungus belonging to the Pluteev family and the Plyutei genus.
The fruiting body of the veiny whip (Pluteus phlebophorus) consists of a stem and a cap. The diameter of the cap varies between 2-6 cm. It can be conical or protruding in shape, has a tubercle on top, and has thin flesh. The surface of the cap is matte, covered with a network of wrinkles (which can also be located radially or branched). In the central part of the cap, wrinkles are more noticeable. The cap edges are even, and its color can be smoky brown, dark brown or amber brown.
The lamellar hymenophore consists of freely and often located wide plates. In color, they are pinkish or white-pink, have pale pink edges.
The leg of the veiny whip has a cylindrical shape, located in the center of the cap. Its length is 3-9 cm, and its diameter is 0.2-0.6 cm. In young fruiting bodies it is continuous, in mature mushrooms it becomes hollow, slightly wider at the base. The surface at the stem is white, below it is gray-yellow or simply grayish, with longitudinal fibers, covered with small white villi.
Mushroom pulp is white when damaged does not change its color. It has an unpleasant odor and a sour taste. The color of the spore powder is pink, the remains of the soil cover are absent on the surface of the fruiting body.
The spores of the veined whip (Pluteus phlebophorus) have the shape of a wide ellipse or egg, they are smooth to the touch.
Veined whip (Pluteus phlebophorus) belongs to saprotrophs, grows on stumps of deciduous trees, wood residues, deciduous forests and soils. It is found in many European countries, including the Baltics, the British Isles, Ukraine, Belarus, Asia, Georgia, Israel, South and North America, North Africa. Fruiting in northern temperate latitudes begins in June and continues until mid-October.
Conditionally edible (according to some sources – inedible) mushroom. This species has been little studied.
The veiny pluteus (Pluteus phlebophorus) is similar to other types of pluteus, dwarf (Pluteus nanus) and colored (Pluteus chrysophaeus). The differences between them lie in the microscopic structures and characteristics of the cap.
Absent.