Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inocybe pyriodora (Pers.) Bres. Fungi Trid. 1: 48. 1884
Agaricus pyriodorus Pers. Syn. Fung. 300. 1801.
Pileus fleshy, conic-campanulate, expanded and broadly umbonate, 3-5 (-7) cm. broad; surface dry, at first silky-tomentulose, at length appressed-fibrillose-scaly, whitish when young, soon dingy-ochraceous or pale-fuscous-claycolored ; margin sometimes irregularly lobedoi spHt; context whitish, slowly brick-red where cut, thick on the disk, the odor spicy; lamellae sinuateadnexed, medium-broad, close, whitish then sordid-cinnamon, with age diluted with a rufous tinge, the edges white-flocculose; stipe subequal, at first cortinate, solid to stuffed, hollowed by grubs, subfibrillose, furfuraceous at the apex, white at first becoming light-reddish with age, 4-7 cm. long, 4^10 mm. thick; spores elliptic-subovoid, smooth, inequilateral, 7.5-10 X 5-6 m; cystidia thick-walled, moderately abundant, fusoid to ovoid above a short pedicel or sessile, hyaline, flattened in one plane, 45-60 X 10-20 ju-
Type locality: Austria.
Habitat: In coniferous and frondose woods.
Distribution: New England to Michigan, Missouri, and California; 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
