Chlorophyllum sect. Chlorophyllum Massee

Type.

Chlorophyllum molybdites (G. Mey.) Massee. Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew: 136. 1898.

≡ Agaricus molybdites G. Mey., Prim. fl. esseq.: 300. 1818.

Description.

Basidiocarps medium to large sized, stout, agaricoid, with obvious plate-like squamules. Basidiospores olive to greenish-white, thick-walled, ellipsoid to amygdaliform with a truncate apex, except for C. palaeotropicum, which produce subglobose basidiospores without germ pore. Cheilocystidia broadly clavate to sphaeropedunculate. Pileipellis is a palisade of hyphae with terminal elements clavate to subfusiform.

Discussion.

This section contains the type species of this genus, C. molybdites and also C. globosum, C. pseudoglobosum, as well as the novel taxon C. palaeotropicum .