Simocybe tepeitensis (Murrill) Singer 1962

Naucoria tepeitensis Murrill, Mycologia 4: 79. 1912
Pileus very thin, convex, gregarious, reaching 12 mm. broad; surface smooth, whitish,
hygrophanous, faintly striate over the lamellae, margin entire, inrolled when young; lamellae
free to adnate, whitish, dull, several times inserted, broad, distant, the edges white and slightly
crenulate; spores subovoid, slightly flattened on one side, smooth, uninucleate, very pale
melleous under the microscope, 6 X 4 jj, ; stipe crooked, arising from a mat of white mycelium,
slightly, enlarged above, smooth, glabrous, whitish, hygrophanous, 1 cm. long, about 1 mm.
thick.
Type locality: Tepeite Valley, near Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Habitat : On a rotten log in a moist, virgin forest. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.