E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Inocybe radiata
no common name
Inocybaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

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Species Information

Summary:
Features include 1) a dry cap that is fuscous brown to ochraceous brown with a dark umber umbo, the cap surface appressed-fibrillose away from the umbo, 2) close broad gills that become ochraceous cinnamon to ferruginous with white fringed edges, 3) a somewhat bulbous, dry, fibrillose stem that is umber-fuscous-brown with a paler top, 4) an earthy odor, and 5) angular spores with a few scattered tubercles. The description is derived from Kauffman(1). It may be a synonym of Inocybe curvipes P. Karst.

Inocybe radiata was reported by Gamiet(1) for BC. There is a collection by L. Norvell from BC at the University of British Columbia. There are collections at the University of Washington from WA, ID, MA, and MI. It was noted by Kauffman(4) for MA and NY to NC and MI.
Cap:
1.5-5cm across, bell-shaped, very umbonate with an obtuse, dark umber umbo; fuscous brown to ochraceous brown; dry, umbo stays bald, but elsewhere cap is appressed-fibrillose with brown fibrils, becoming cracked
Flesh:
thickish on disc; white
Gills:
adnate, finally sinuate-uncinate, close, broad; becoming ochraceous cinnamon to somewhat ferruginous; edges white and flocculose [fringed]
Stem:
3-6cm x 0.2-0.4cm, equal, stuffed, somewhat bulbed at base; becoming umber-fuscous-brown with paler top; dry, silky fibrillose, white-mycelioid at base
Veil:
no ring
Odor:
earthy
Microscopic spores:
spores 7-9 x 5-6 microns, irregularly oblong-rectangular to somewhat wedge-shaped, angular and with a few scattered tubercles; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia few or scattered, 55-65 x 12-18 microns, broadly ventricose (wider in middle), top somewhat pointed and encrusted, on slender pedicel
Spore deposit:
brown

Habitat / Range

gregarious on ground in deciduous woods

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Species References

Kauffman(1), Kauffman(4), Gamiet(1)

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