Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Volvariopsis cubensis Murrill, Mycologia 3: 281. 1911
Volvaria cubensis Murrill, Mycologia 4: 332. 1912.
Pileus firm, fleshy, rather tough, irregularly expanded, obtuse, solitary, 7 cm. broad; surface dark-smoky-brown, minutely fibrillose, not striate, the disk seal-brown and glabrous ; context with strong, unpleasant odor; lamellae free, distant, subcrowded, rather broad, subventricose, heterophyllous; spores ellipsoid, smooth, uninucleate, about 5.5 X 3.5 p; stipe subcylindric, slightly enlarged above and below, concolorous but paler, glabrous, solid, tough, the apex pallid, 6-7 cm. long, 7 mm. thick; volva thick and fleshy, cup-shaped, distant, bifid, concolorous.
Type locality: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. Habitat: On the ground in a banana field. Distribution: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba,
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
