English: The deceiver; Waxy laccaria; Lacklustre laccaria.
German: Rötliche Lacktrichterling; Rote Lackpilz.
India: Beshia ladhi biinii.
Synonym: Agaricus laccatus; Agaricus incanus;Agaricus farinaceus; Agaricus rosellus; Clitocybe laccata; Laccaria affinis; Laccaria scotica.
Name: laccatus in Latin means varnished or shining.
Genus: cosmopolitan Laccaria.
Clades:
Hydnangiaceae.
Region: North America, Europe.
Use: edible.
MycologyType: small; highly variable; red, pinkish brown, orange when young, later quite washed out, colorless, drab; considered by mushroom collectors as a 'mushroom weed' because of its abundance and plain stature; flesh is thin and has little taste.
Cap: various shades of salmon pink, brick-red, or shades of orange or brown when moist or young, and duller and paler when dry; 2 to 6 cm in diameter; convex when young, later flattening or even depressed in the center.
Stipe: fibrous; 2 to 10 cm tall, 3 to 10 mm thick.
Hymenium: gills irregular, widely spaced, decurrent or adnexed, similar color to the cap, later whitening.
Spore print: white,
Spores: white; round; spiny; 7 to 10 μm in diameter.