Synonymy:
Agaricus cervinus Schaeff., Fung. bavar. palat. nasc. (Ratisbonae) 4: 6 (1774)
Rhodosporus cervinus (Schaeff.) J. Schröt., in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien (Breslau) 3.1(33–40): 620 (1889)
Hyporrhodius cervinus (Schaeff.) Henn., in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Teil. I (Leipzig) 1(1**): 258 (1898) [1900]

Agaricus pluteus Batsch, Elench. fung. (Halle): 79 (1783)
Gymnopus pluteus (Batsch) Zaw., Enum. plant. Galic. Bucow. (Breslau): 164, no. 2585 (1835)

Agaricus atricapillus Batsch, Elench. fung. (Halle): 77 (1783)
Pluteus atricapillus (Batsch) Fayod, Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 7 9: 364 (1889)

Agaricus pluteus β rigens Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 357 (1801)
Agaricus cervinus var. rigens (Pers.) Fr., Epicrisis Systematis Mycologici: 140 (1838) [1836-1838]
Pluteus cervinus var. rigens (Pers.) P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 253 (1879)
Pluteus cervinus subsp. rigens (Pers.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 5: 665 (1887)
Hyporrhodius cervinus var. rigens (Pers.) Henn., Verh. bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 40: 139 (1898) [1899]

Agaricus pluteus var. vulgatus Alb. & Schwein., Consp. fung. (Leipzig): 180 (1805)

Agaricus curtisii Berk. & Broome, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 98 (1849)

Agaricus cervinus var. eximius W. Saunders & W.G. Sm., Mycological illustrations: pl. 38 (1870)
Pluteus cervinus subsp. eximius (W. Saunders & W.G. Sm.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 5: 666 (1887)
Pluteus eximius (W. Saunders & W.G. Sm.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 5: 666 (1887)
Pluteus cervinus var. eximius (W. Saunders & W.G. Sm.) Sacc., in Saccardo & Traverso, Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 20: 464 (1911)

Agaricus cervinus var. bullii Cooke, Handb. Brit. Fungi, 2nd Edn: 115 (1883)
Pluteus cervinus var. bullii (Cooke) Rea, Brit. basidiomyc. (Cambridge): 56 (1922)

Pluteus cervinus var. albus Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. nat. Hist. 38: 135 (1885)

Pluteus cervinus var. albipes Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. nat. Hist. 38: 135 (1885)

Pluteus curtisii Berk., in Saccardo, Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 5: 675 (1887)

Pluteus cervinus var. griseoviridis Henn., Hedwigia 43(3): 204 (1904)

Pluteus cervinus var. caespitosus Overh., Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis 3: 199 (1916)

Pluteus cervinus var. brasiliensis Bres., Annls mycol. 18(1/3): 30 (1920)
Pluteus atricapillus var. brasiliensis (Bres.) Raithelh., Metrodiana, Sonderheft 2: 18 (1983)

Pluteus bullii Berk. ex Rea, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 12(2-3): 208 (1927)

Pluteus cervinus var. scaber J.E. Lange, Fl. Agaric. Danic. 2: 83 (1937)

Pluteus cervinus var. bambusinus R.E.D. Baker & W.T. Dale, Mycol. Pap. 33: 93 (1951)

Pluteus cervinus var. tucumanensis Singer, in Singer & Digilio, Lilloa 25: 254 (1952) [1951]
Pluteus atricapillus var. tucumanensis (Singer) Raithelh., Metrodiana, Sonderheft 2: 19 (1983)

Pluteus atricapillus var. albus Vellinga, in Vellinga & Schreurs, Persoonia 12(4): 342 (1985)

Pluteus brunneoradiatus Bonnard, Mycol. helv. 2(2): 141 (1987)
Pluteus cervinus f. brunneoradiatus (Bonnard) A. Mateos, Bol. Inform. Soc. Micol. Extrem. 16: 32 (2016)

Pluteus exilis var. austriacus Singer, Fieldiana, Bot. 21: 94 (1989)

Pluteus cervinus f. pseudovelatus E. Ludw., Pilzkompendium (Eching) 2([2]): 540 (2007)

Pluteus brunneoradiatus var. albus J.Aug. Schmitt, Abhandlungen der DELATTINIA 47: 150 (2022)

Position in classification:
Pluteus, Pluteaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi

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