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Melanoleuca polioleuca (Fr.) Kühner & Maire, Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. Fr. 50: 18 (1934)

Melanoleuca arcuata sensu Singer (1935), sensu Phillips (1981)
Melanoleuca melaleuca sensu Dennis, Orton & Hora [TBMS 43(Suppl.), 1960], sensu auct. mult.
Agaricus melaleucus γ polioleucus Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 115 (1821)
Tricholoma melaleucum var. polioleucum (Fr.) Gillet, Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 128 (1874) [1878]
Tricholoma polioleucum (Fr.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 5: 134 (1887)
Melaleuca vulgaris Pat., Hyménomyc. Eur. (Paris): 96 (1887)
Melanoleuca vulgaris (Pat.) Pat., Cat. Rais. Pl. Cellul. Tunisie (Paris): 22 (1897)

Habitat: On soil, in deciduous woodland and with conifers. Occasionally reported in grassland.

Notes: Common in England and Scotland. Rarely reported elsewhere but apparently widespread.

Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: !, NI: !, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 61310; Scotland: E00139229; Wales: K(M) 98549; NI: K(M) 120236; ROI: K(M) 9268

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Melanoleuca arcuata, p. 45
I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Melanoleuca melaleuca, p. 45
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 150
D:, in Watling, R. & Turnbull. E., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 8 Cantharellaceae, Gomphaceae and Amyloid Spored and Xeruloid Members of Tricholomataceae (excl. Mycena) 8: 189 pp. (1998), p. 73
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. 164-165

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