Eastern United States; south to Florida
Inocybe communis seems to like oak and beech trees, along with other hardwoods and pine. Usually found in summer to early fall growing from the ground. Frequents urban areas also, like cemeteries and lawns. Cap is a dull yellowish brown; cracked and scaly (fibrillose-rimose). Stem is white to pale yellow; pruinose, having a fine powdery look and texture. Stem sometimes has a slight basal bulb.
Widely distributed in Eastern U.S. and often collected. Hence, the name communis, which is Latin for “common”.
Spores are described as coarsely nodulose, almost stellate. Pleurocystidia have encrusted (crystalliferous) apices.
This species is one of six new species recently described in the journal Mycologia, by Sigrid Jakob, among others.
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