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Pholiota avellanea Murrill, Mycologia 5: 32. 1913
Pileus about 3 mm. broad and 3 mm. thick, nearly plane, solitary, pale-avellaneous, darker at the center, dull, glabrous, smooth, thin and slightly decurved on the margin; lamellae adnate, close, about 2 mm. broad, avellaneous when looked at perpendicularly; veil forming an ample, white, superior, persistent annulus; stipe central, terete, enlarged below, crooked, white at the apex, hygrophanous and longitudinally streaked below, 5 cm. long, 4 mm. thick; spores ellipsoid, truncate at one end, 8.5-10 X 4.5-5.5 /*; cystidia rather numerous, flask-shaped, projecting conspicuously.
Type locality: Morce's Gap, Jamaica.
Habitat: On the ground.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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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
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