Rhodotus is a genus of just one mushroom species, Rhodotus palmatus, known as the rosy veincap or wrinkled peach. Typically found growing on the stumps and logs of rotting hardwoods, mature specimens may usually be identified by the pinkish color and the distinctive ridged and veined surface of their rubbery caps, though the size, shape, and color can vary depending on the quantity and shades of light received during development. This uncommon species has been collected in eastern North America, northern Africa, Europe, and Asia. Declining populations in Europe have led to its appearance in over half of the European fungal Red Lists of threatened species. First named Agaricus palmatus by Bulliard in 1785, it was reclassified into several different genera before becoming Rhodotus in 1926. The familial placement of the genus Rhodotus within the order Agaricales has also been subject to dispute, and the taxon has been transferred variously to the families Amanitaceae, Entolomataceae, and Tricholomataceae. Molecular phylogenetics analysis has helped determine that Rhodotus is most closely related to genera in the Physalacriaceae.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1792:

After Foreign Minister Charles François Dumouriez presented the French Legislative Assembly with a long list of grievances against Austria, France declared war to begin the French Revolutionary Wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars

1818:

Four days after the Court of King's Bench in England upheld a murder suspect's right to trial by battle in Ashford v Thornton, the plaintiff declined to fight, allowing the defendant to go free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton

1914:

A fire and a gun battle between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, led to 17 deaths in the Ludlow Massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

1968:

Pierre Trudeau succeeded Lester B. Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau

2010:

An explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, caused the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

capias: (law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capias

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.   --Dinah Craik https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik