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Crepidotus cinchonensis Murrill, Mycologia 5 : 30. 1913
Pileus thin, soft, fleshy, convex to plane above, reniform to orbicular, gregarious, attached by a lateral or eccentric point, or by the vertex, sometimes strigose at the base, appearing esupinate when growing on the under side of a trunk, reaching 2 cm. in diameter; surface dullwaterywhite, pulverulent to nearly glabrous, striate, margin very thin, pellucid, darker than the rest of the surface on drying; lamellae radiating from a lateral or eccentric point, crowded, thin, fragile, slightly ventricose, dullwaterywhite, becoming subf ulvous at maturity ; spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, pale-melleous under a microscope, 1-fewgut tula te, 8-9 X 4-5 M .
Type locality: Cinchona, Jamaica.
Habitat : On dead branches of broad -leaved trees.
Distribution: Jamaica.
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William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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