Melanoleuca evenosa
Icon. Select. Fung. 4: 272. 1927.
Common Name: none
Synonym: Tricholoma cnista subsp. evenosum Sacc.
For description see Gillman & Miller, Knudsen & Vesterholt (2008), and 'California Mushrooms'.
Solitary to scattered in duff under montane conifers; uncommon, fruiting in spring near melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges.
Unknown.
Melanoleuca evenosa can be distinguished by its dark brown to yellowish brown cap, white gills, amyloid-warted spores, and conspicuous harpoon-shaped, crystal-incrusted hymenial cystidia. It occurs in the same habitat and at the same time as Melanoleuca angelesiana and Clitocybe glacialis. Melanoleuca angelesiana is smaller, with cream to pale grey gills. Clitocybe glacialis has caps with silvery grey bloom, stipes that arise from a dense mat of white mycelium and smooth, inamyloid spores.
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Knudsen, H. & Vesterholt, J. ed. (2008). Funga Nordica: Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Nordsvamp: Copenhagen, Denmark. 965 p. (PDF)
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Saccardo, P.A. (1887) Sylloge Fungorum V: 132. (Protologue)
