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Psalliot
pileus convex, expanded, up to 12 cm. diameter,disc tawny,
honey-yellow, margin lighter, fibrillose, scaly,rimose on disc,
margin splitting; flesh+ thick; gills free, purple -brown,
crowded, ventricose, stem 6 cm # 13-20 mm, tapering upward,
pruinose above, broad, thick annulus, below floccose.
Grassy hillside in potrero. No 7672 was growing from kill
of leaf cutting ants in jungle
Specimens examined:
Costa Rica, San Jose, Rancho Redondo,Alt. 2300m., Dodge & Thomas
Puntarenas, Osa, 10m Dodge 7672
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