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Pholiota limonella (Peck) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 753 (1887)

Pholiota squarrosoadiposa sensu auct.
Agaricus limonellus Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. nat. Hist. 31: 33 (1879)
Pholiota ceriferoides P.D. Orton, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 91(4): 565 (1988)

Habitat: On dead wood of deciduous trees, often Fagus, and usually at the bases of dead standing trunks, on large felled logs, or rarely in knotholes on living trunks.

Notes: Rarely reported. Previously not distinguished from Pholiota aurivella (which has markedly larger spores).

Distribution: E: o, S: !, W: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 20521; Scotland: K(M) 83950; Wales: K(M) 377

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
I:, in Lange, J.E., Flora Agaricina Danica 1: 92 pp. (1935), pl. 109 D
D:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 4: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Strophariaceae, Tricholomataceae (3), (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 4: 191 pp. (1999), p. 86

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