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Agrocybe smithii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Strophariaceae
Genus:	Agrocybe
Species:	A. smithii
Binomial name
Agrocybe smithii Watling & H.E.Bigelow

Agrocybe smithii is a species of mushroom in the genus Agrocybe. This species is a pileate-stipitate fungi, and has a medium size of fruitbodies. The cap is convex to plane-convex; yellowish brown. The hymenium is gilled with adnexed gills, initially whitish, but later dark brown. Odour mealy and taste bitter. The stipe is central, cylindrical and lacks a partial veil; usually has mycelial cords in the stipe base. Its spores are short, broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth with a germ pore. Its pellis has large, rather inflated cheilocystidia which are more or less flask-shaped. Often found growing on wood chips.

References

1. Watling R, Bigelow HE. (1983). "Observations on the Bolbitiaceae – 22". Mycotaxon. 17: 377–97.

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