Inocybe asterospora Quél. 1880

Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Inocybe asterospora is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Ectomycorrhizal trees and shrubs
Remarks: Other: uncertain

Inocybe asterospora Qu61. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 26: 50. 1879
Clypeus subrimosus P. Karst. Medd. Soc. Faun. Fl. Fenn. 16: 38. 1889. Inocybe subrimosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 100. 1891.
Pileus rather thin, coniccampanulate to convex-umbonate, 2-5 cm. broad; surface dry, fibrillose, becoming more or less scaly, distinctly rimose, chestnut-brown to cinnamon-rufous (R) ; context pallid ; lamellae narrowly adnate then emarginate, broad, ventricose, close, at length olivaceous-cinnamon or grayish-brown, the edges fimbriate; stipe equal above the depressed-emarginate, rather prominent bulb, innately striatulate, mealy-pubescent, solid, rufescent, 4-6 cm. long, 2.5-6 mm, thick; spores spheroid to broad-elHptic in outline, covered with blunt, subcylindric nodules, 9-11 (-12) X 8-10 ju, or 9-11 ju in diameter; cystidia stout, subovoid to ventricose-sublanceolate or subfusoid, obtuse, hyaline at the apex, sessile or with a short pedicel, thick-walled, thicker upward, abundant on the sides and the edges of the lamellae, 50-75 X 15-25 m-
Type LOCALITY : France.
Habitat: On the ground in frondose and mixed woods.
Distribution: New England to Virginia, and westward to Wisconsin and Missouri; also in Europe.