Associations
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Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Volvariella hypopithys is saprobic on litter of Broadleaved trees
Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Volvariella hypopithys is saprobic on litter of Pinopsida
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Volvariopsis pubescentipes (Peck) Murrill
Agaricus pubescentipes Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y, State Mus. 29: 39. 1878. Volvaria pubipes Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 658. 1887.
Pileus convex, about 1.2-2.5 cm. broad; surface dry, white, clothed with minute, hairy squamules or reflexed fibrils, margin fimbriate; lamellae crowded, free, white, becoming fleshcolored, sometimes minutely serrate or eroded on the edges; spores ellipsoid, usually uninucleate, 6-7 ju; stipe slender, subequal, pubescent, about 2.5 cm. long and 2 mm. thick; volva subappressed, white.
Typb locality: Sandlake, New York. Habitat: On the ground in borders of deciduous woods. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
