Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pholiota minima Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y
State Mus. 41: 65. 1888,
Pileus 3-8 mm. broad, hemispheric or campanulate, umbonate, brown when moist, palebuff or yellowish-white when dry, brown in herbarium specunens, hygrophanous, glabrous, striatulate on the margin when moist; lamellae adnexed, subdistant, ferruginous, cinnamon in dried plants, 1-2 mm. broad; veil forming an evanescent medium or superior annulus; stipe central, equal, concolorous with the pileus, shining, glabrous, solid, 1-2.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick; spores ovoid or elliptic, minutely aspemlate, 6-8.5 X 3.5-4.5 fi; cystidia none.
Type locality: Catskill Mountains, New York. Habitat: Among hair-cap mosses. »
Distribution : New York and Alabama.
- 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
