Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hebeloma cinchonense Murrill, Mycologia 4: 82. 1912
Pileus convex to expanded, umbonate, gregarious, 3-6 cm.,broad, 1-2 cm. thick; surface pale-isabelline, rarely milky-white with a stramineous tinge, viscid, smooth, margin white, thin, straight, slightly cottony; context white, without characteristic taste; lamellae white, sinuate-adnexed, ventricose, broad; spores pip-shaped, smooth, with a single large, clear nucleus, pale-melleous under the microscope, 8X4/*; stipe fleshy with a thin rind, enlarged below, abruptly bulbous at the base, glabrous, white or pale-yellowish, 3-6 cm. long, 7-10 mm. thick; veil slight, fibrillose, evanescent.
Type locality: Cinchona, Jamaica. Habitat: On the ground. Distribution: Cinchona, Jamaica.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
