Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inocybe decipientoides Peck, Bull Torrey Club 34: 100. 1907
Inocybe Astoriana Murrill, Mycologia 3: 104. 1911. Inocybe ochraceoscabra Atk. Am. Jour. Bot. 5: 214. 1918.
Pileus rather thin, subconic to campanulate-convex, then expanded and umbonate, 1-3 cm. broad; surface dry, innately fibrillose, often scaly on the disk, sometimes entirely appressedscaly, wood-brown (R) to tawny (R), the umbo .darker; margin whitecortinate, frequently rimose with age, the cortina white, evanescent; context whitish; lamellae adnexed, sinuate, moderately broad, subdistant, whitish then brown, the edges white-fimbriate ; stipe equal, subbulbous, stuffed to hollow, fragile, fibrillose, pruinose above, pallid becoming brownish below, 2-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick; spores tuberculate-angular, usually varying ovoid-cuneate or subrectangular, covered with prominent but scattered nodules (frequently a large nodule terminates the narrow end of a spore) variable in size in different collections, 9-11 (-15) X 5-7 (-8) ju; cystidia thin-walled, hyaline, ventricose-elliptic to broadly fusiform above a long, slender pedicel, scattered to sifbabundant on the sides, abundant on the edges of the lamellae, 50-60 X 15-25 m; sterile cells abundant on the edges of the lamellae.
Type locality: Boston, Massachusetts.
Habitat: On lawns, along roadsides, and in swamps.
Distribution: Massachusetts to Maryland; and in Washington and Oregon.
- 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