Pluteus salicinus

On heavily decayed wood of broadleaved trees in riparian zones, with a convex to flattened pileus 2 to 5 cm across, brownish-grey with a darker central disc, smooth surface with radial translucency, free white to pink lamellae, a cylindrical whitish stipe slightly enlarged at the base, raphanoid odour, and mild taste.

Pileipellis a cutis of parallel hyphae 10 to 20 µm wide, with numerous cylindrical to fusiform terminal elements 90 to 230 µm long, containing brownish pigment, septate with small clamp connections at the septa.

Cheilocystidia predominantly clavate, hyaline, 30 to 55 µm long and 15 to 25 µm wide.

Pleurocystidia metuloidal (coronate), fusiform to lageniform, thick-walled, 75 to 90 µm long, 15 to 25 µm wide, ornamented with 2 to 4 apical hooks or horns.

Basidia cylindrical to ventricose, 25 to 35 µm long, 8 to 10 µm wide, partly clamped, 4-spored.

Spores subcylindrical to ellipsoidal, smooth, slightly thick-walled, pinkish-grey under the microscope, 7 to 9 µm long, 5 to 6.5 µm wide, with an inconspicuous apiculus, containing oil droplets, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.