Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pholiota bryophila Murrill, Mycologia 5: 33, 1913
Pileus 0.5-2 cm.broad,planeor slightly depressed, isabelline, smooth, dry, glabrous , regular on the margin, appearing somewhat obtuse because of the broad lamellae; lamellae adnate, slightly distant, ventricose, 2-3 mm. broad, yellowish to brown; veil forming a white, conspicuous, persistent annulus, attached slightly above the middle of the stipe; stipe central, terete, equal, often curved, smooth, glabrous, subconcolorous, slender and rather tough, 2 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick; spores ovoid to ellipsoid, rough, 8-9.5 X 5-6 m; cystidia none.
Type locality: Orizaba, Mexico.
Habitat : Among moss on a moist limestone cliff.
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
