Hygrophoropsis fuscosquamula is a species of fungus in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae. Found in Europe, it was described as new to science by English mycologist Peter Darbishire Orton in 1960. Fruit bodies of the fungus have whitish cream to pale yellowish caps with many small, olive-brown scales. Its spores measure 6.0–8.0 by 3.5–4.5 μm.[1]
| Hygrophoropsis fuscosquamula | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Boletales |
| Family: | Hygrophoropsidaceae |
| Genus: | Hygrophoropsis |
| Species: | H. fuscosquamula
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| Binomial name | |
| Hygrophoropsis fuscosquamula P.D.Orton (1960)
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References
edit- ^ Orton PD. (1960). "New check list of British Agarics and Boleti, part III (keys to Crepidotus, Deconica, Flocculina, Hygrophorus, Naucoria, Pluteus and Volvaria)". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 43 (2): 159–439 (see p. 245). doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(60)80065-4.
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