Associations
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Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Inocybe tenebrosa is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Ectomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs
Remarks: Other: uncertain
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inocybe atripes Atk. Am. Jour. Bot. 5: 210. 1918
Pileus slightly fleshy, ovoid, 'then convexexpanded, subumbonate, 1-3.5 cm. broad; surface dry, appressed-fibrillose-scaly rarely subsquarrose, areolate-cracked on the center, tawnyolive to raw-umber, darker on the disk ; context white, the odor rather distinct when bruised ; lamellae adnexed, thin, subventricose, moderately broad, white at first, finally tawny-olive, the edges white-fimbriate ; Stipe equal or slightly enlarged at the base, flexuous, soUd, pruinose at the apex, subfibrillose or slightly lacerated downward, smoky-fuscescent, finally fuliginous except the whitish apex, white-mycelioid at the base, 3-6 (-7) cm. long, 3-6 mm. thick; spores ovoid or subellipsoid, smooth, inequilateral, 7-9.5 (-10) X 5-5.5 (-6) /x; cystidia subcylindric-clavate, thickwalled, hyaline, tapering to a short pedicel, rather abundant, 45-55
X 12-15 (-20) M.
Type locality: Ithaca, New York.
Habitat: Under pines and shrubs.
Distribution : New York, Maryland, and Wyoming.
- 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