Pholiota fibrillosipes (Murrill) A. H. Sm. & Hesler 1968

Gymnopilus fibrillosipes Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus fleshy, rather thick, convex to expanded, obtuse or nearly so, cespitose, 3-6 cm. broad; surface vised, glabrous, reddish-brown, darker on the disk, margin not striate, at first incurved and appendiculate ; context yellow, slightly acrid; lamellae adnate or subdecurrent, crowded, rather broad, plane, yellow to cinnamon-colored ; spores oblong-ellipsoid, cinnamon, about 8 X 4 /x ; stipe cylindric or tapering toward the base, solid, densely fibrillose, especially when young, yellow, at length becoming brownish, bright-yellow within, 4-8 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick; veil of tough, yellowish fibers.
Type collected on the ground in pine woods at the margin of a swamp north of Auburn, Alabama, January 6, 1900, F. S. Earle (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution : Known only from the type locality.