Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pholiota musae (Earle) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 34. 1913
PhoUotina Musae Karle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 241. 1906.
Pileus 1-4 cm. broad, convex to expanded, pale-fuscous to tan, hygrophanous, striate on the margin and at length upturned; lamellae adnexed, crowded, becoming ventricose, subconcolorous to darker; veil soon evanescent, sometimes no ring formed; stipe central, equal, glabrous, shining, white, hollow, 4-6 cm. long, 3-6 mm. thick; spores ellipsoid or narrow-ellipsoid, nearly hyaline, smooth, 17-19 X 7-9 /*; cystidia none.
Type locality: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba.
Habitat: On dead banana stalks.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- 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
