Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inocybe decipiens Bres. Fungi Trid. 2: 13. 1892
Pileus slightly fleshy, convex then expanded-umbonate, 2-5 cm. broad; surface silkyflocciUose, the tunbo glabrous or becoming diffracted-scaly, dry, ochraceous-cinnamon; context whitish, the odor earthy; lamellae sinuateadnexed, rounded behind, close, broad, ventricose, whitish at first then cinereous, at length lurid-cinnamon, the edges obsoletely fimbriate ; stipe stuffed, glabrous, subpruinose at the apex, slightly striate, emarginate-bulbous, whitish or pallid, 4-5 cm. long, 6-9 mm. thick; spores yellowish, angular, nontuberculate or with obsolete tubercles, sinuate-elliptic, 10-13 (-15) X 5-7 (-8) m; cystidia stout, thick-waUed upward, with a short pedicel, moderately abundant on the sides, mote on the edges of the lamellae, 60-70 X 18-25 fx; sterile cells on the edges of the lamellae.
Type LOCALITY : Austria.
Habitat: On the ground in thickets and the edges of fields.
Distribution: New York; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill, Calvin Henry Kauffman, Lee Oras Overholts. 1924. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars), INOCYBE, PHOLIOTA. North American flora. vol 10(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY