DIVISION: Basidiomycota, ORDER: Boletales, FAMILY: Paxillaceae

Paxillus veluticeps (McAlpine) Singer, Sydowia 15: 82 (1962)

Synonyms (5)

Agaricus veluticeps Cooke & Massee (1891)

Flammula veluticeps McAlpine (1895)

Phylloporus veluticeps (McAlpine) Pegler & T.W.K.Young (1981)

Agaricus pactolus Cooke ex F.Muell. (1885)

Crepidotus pactolus Cooke ex Pilát (1951)

Misidentifications (1)

Flammula aldridgei Massee sensu Massee (1899b) p.p. and sensu Rodway (1898a).

References to occurrences in Australia

Chang & Kantvilas (1993: as aldridgei [sensu Rodway], 'Paxillus sp.'), Cooke (1891b; 1892a), Dennis et al. (1960: British records of veluticeps are doubtful, possibly an alien), Garrido (1988), Grgurinovic (1997), Horak (1979c), Li (1999: '? = "Flammula aldridgei" Mass.'), Massee (1899b: as aldridgei), McAlpine (1895a), McAlpine & Rodway (1896), McNabb (1969), Mueller (1885), Pegler (1965), Pegler & Young (1971; 1981a), Pilát (1951: pactolus), Rea (1922: under Flammula aldridgei), Rodway (1898a: as aldridgei), Saccardo (1895), Singer (1955: including also Paxillus infundibuliformis; 1962c; 1964a; 1981; 1986), Sinnott (1976), Watling & Gregory (1991).

References with illustrations of fruiting bodies - black and white

McAlpine & Rodway (1896), Pilát (1951: pactolus).

References with illustrations of microscopic characters

McAlpine & Rodway (1896), Pegler (1965), Pegler & Young (1971; 1981a), Pilát (1951: pactolus).