Pholiota cubensis Earle 1906

Pholiota cubensis Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr
Agron. Cuba 1: 242. 1906.
Pileus 3-12 cm. broad, fleshy, firm, expanded, scattered or gregarious, dark-tan, "tawny" or "cinnamon brown" in herbarium specimens, dry, floccose-scaly on the disk, areolate but not striate on the margin ; context yellowish , mild but somewhat unpleasant ; lamellae sinuate with an adnate tooth, crowded, 3-7 mm. broad, dark-cinnamon; stipe central, terete, slightly enlarged at the base, floccose above, glabrous below, pale-yellow, solid, firm, 3-6 cm. long, 3-10 mm. thick; spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, 6-7 X 3-4.5 n; cystidia present, not conspicuous, projecting slightly.
Type locality: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba.
Habitat: On the ground under a building; also in open fields.
Distribution: Cuba and Grenada.