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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Orton, P.D., 1986
Pluteaceae: Pluteus & Volvariella
Keys and detailed species accounts. The species concept adopted here is narrower than in more recent accounts (eg FAN 2 and the UK checklist). This is particularly in the yellow-capped group, where the author has always maintained that P. luteovirens has a greenish-yellow cap (as the name implies), distinctly different from the warmer yellow of P. galeroides and P. xanthophaeus.
| Publisher |
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) |
| Volume |
vol 4 |
| Pages |
99 |
| ISBN |
0 9504270 4 7 |
| Comments and Corrigenda |
Couplet 48 (page 17) refers to Fig 11 - this should be Figs 13-18 (broad cystidia) and fig 10 should be 10-12 (narrow cystidia). Further more: figs 13-17 (especially 15) are drawn too broad (PDO: pers comm). |
| Coverage |
All British species known at the time. |
| Illustrations |
Line drawings of microscopy, at the back. |
| Identify |
Under a Compound Microscope. |
| Specimen Prep. |
Spore, cap cuticle and (facial) cystidia preps needed. |
| Difficulty |
Mostly straightforward, with the microscopy, but the species around luteovirens and around griseoluridus are tricky. |
Malcolm Storey
Taxonomic Scope
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