taxonID	type	description	language	source
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	description	MycoBank: — MB 847336	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — Differs from all other species by its medium-sized basidiomata, snow-white pileus with smooth brownish yellow umbo and scaly to cottony surface covered with floccose velar remnants, pale yellowish stipe covered by floccose to fibrillose scales; fusiform to cylindrical, slightly thick-walled, dextrinoid basidiospores, a trichodermtype pileus covering composed of elongate, narrowly clavate to subcylindrical terminal hyphae, presence of clamp-connections in all tissues, and its occurrence on debris of Picea smithiana needles.	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — India, Jammu and Kashmir: Doda district, Gandoh, Bhalessa, under Picea simithiana (Wall.) Boiss. at 33 ° 01 ′ 02.9 ″ N, 76 ° 03 ′ 38.3 ″ E, alt. 3142 m, 11 August 2022, Masood Ahamed and Yash Pal Sharma, holotype, GenBank: ITS-rDNA OP 954870, LSU-rDNA OP 954873, HBJU / M / 1 (MAA- 01).	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — ‘ albofloccosa’ is derived from ‘ albus’ meaning ‘ white’, and ‘ floccosus’, meaning ‘ with tufts of wool ”, together referring to the white floccose pileus surface.	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	description	Description: — Basidiomata medium sized. Pileus 31 – 75 mm diam., initially conical to sub globose, becoming applanate to plano-convex on maturity, distinctly umbonate; surface snow white (1 A 1) to milky white (1 A 1) with pale yellow to brownish yellow (3 B 3 - B 4) center, squamulose; squamules scaly and cottony, snow-white to milky white (1 A 1); margin with floccose velar remnants, undulate on maturity. Lamellae 3 – 5 mm wide, free, even, entire, close to rather crowded with 2 – 3 series of lamellulae, creamy white (1 A 1 - A 2), concolorous; edge. Stipe 115 – 145 × 7 – 9 mm, central, subcylindrical, slightly tapered towards the base; surface dry, dull, pale yellowish (1 A 3), unchanging on bruising, covered by white (1 A 1), floccose to fibrillose squamules that are scattered towards the base; context hollow, cream. Annulus rudimentary, floccose, white. Odour pleasant, mushroom-like. Taste not recorded. Spore-print white. Basidiospores [n = 60, 3 / 2 collections] (11.5 –) 14.7 – 18.5 (– 21) × (5.5 –) 6.1 - 7.2 (– 8) μm, avl × avw = 16.59 × 6.63 μm, Q = 1.8 – 2.9, Qav = 2.51, fusiform to cylindrical with straight abaxial, ellipsoidal to oblong with acute apex side view, ellipsoid-ovoid in frontal view, smooth, hyaline, slightly thick-walled, dextrinoid, with 0 – 2 guttules. Basidia (26 –) 27 – 33 (– 36) × (11 –) 12 – 13 (– 13.5) μm, clavate to broadly clavate, hyaline in KOH, thin-walled, 2 – 4 - spored. Cheilocystidia (20 –) 20 – 28.5 (– 39) × (8.5 –) 9 – 11.5 (– 12.5) µm, narrowly clavate to clavate, with olivaceous granular content, thin-walled. Pleurocystidia absent. Pileus covering a trichoderm, composed of elongate, narrowly clavate to subcylindrical terminal elements measuring (34.0 ‒) 36.0 ‒ 148.0 (‒ 185.0) × (5.5 ‒) 6.5 ‒ 12.0 (‒ 14.0) μm (n = 40, 4 of 2 coll.), with rounded apex or narrow and tapering to apex, sometimes more or less erect, occasionally curved or twisted, densely aggregated and branching, frequently septate, hyaline, thick-walled; with short elements in between, 12 – 32 × 11 – 40 μm, narrowly clavate, hyaline. Stipitipellis hyphae numerous, in clusters, (41.0 ‒) 45.0 ‒ 70.5 (‒ 95.0) × (4.0 ‒) 5.0 ‒ 10.0 (‒ 15.0) μm (n = 40 of 2 coll.) present only at base of stipe, absent towards the apex, very variable in shape, usually narrowly clavate to narrowly utriform, occasionally clavate, cylindrical, oblong, flexuose, hyaline, thin-walled. Clamp connections present and abundant in all examined tissues.	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	biology_ecology	Habit and habitat: — Solitary, caespitose, or gregarious, in small groups on the debris of needles of Picea smithiana, a typical tree species of the temperate forest Region of Bhaderwah forest division.	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	distribution	Geographical distribution range: — Known only from the type locality in District Doda, Gandoh, Bhalessa, Jammu, and Kashmir, India.	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
03EC0975DB35A43CA9DFB5283C31F7B3.taxon	materials_examined	Additional collection examined: — INDIA. Jammu and Kashmir: Doda district, Gandoh, Bhalessa, Bash Galli, 32 ° 2 ′ 36.48 ″ N, 75 ° 50 ′ 24.99 ″ E, alt. 2830 m, 25 August 2022, MAA 02, Masood Ahamed, (HBJU / M / 02).	en	Ahamed, Masood, Verma, Komal, Dutta, Arun Kumar, Sharma, Yash Pal (2023): Lepiota albofloccosa, a new species in sect. Lepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Northwestern Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Phytotaxa 607 (1): 72-84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.607.1.6
