Melanoleuca odorifera Murrill 1914

Melanoleuca odorifera Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thick, fleshy, convex, gregarious, 3-4 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, innately fibrillose, pale-boney-yellow,* fading with age, unicolorous, margin involute, concolorous; context rather thick, concolorous, of mild flavor, odor strong, suggesting chlorin and sour dough; lamellae plane, rather broad and thick, sinuate, subcrowded, colored like the pileus; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-9X5.5-6.5 n; stipe subequal, slightly larger below, concolorous, glabrous, whitish-mycelioid at the base, thick, hollow, 5-7 cm. long, 1 cm. thick.
Type collected in humus in moist woods at Redding, Connecticut, August 26, 1902, F. S. Earle
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Distribution: Known only from the type locality.