Inocybe flocculosa
Syll. fung. 5: 768. 1887.
Common Name: none
For description see Cripps & 'California Mushrooms'.
Solitary to scattered in duff under conifers (pines) or aspens; fruiting from fall through early winter in coastal pine forests, or in fall in the Sierra Nevada.
Unknown.
Inocybe flocculosa can be distinguished by its scaly brown to ochraceous cap, non-bulbous white stipe that becomes ochraceous at maturity or where handled, a faintly spermatic odor, and thick-walled yellow cystidia on the gills and stipe apex. Identification of the several brown, fibrillose-scaly inocybes in California is problematic and usually requires micromorphological analyses. Inocybe subdestricta is similar but has a less scaly, darker brown to reddish brown cap, a pallid stipe with pink tones, and unpigmented cystidia. Inocybe lacera has a brown, fibrillose-tomentose cap, a stipe with pinkish apex and brown base, and elongate spores. Inocybe lanuginosa is dark brown overall, with a fibrillose-scaly stipe and nodulose spores.
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