Hygrocybe flavifolia

Hygrocybe flavifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Hygrophoraceae
Genus:	Hygrocybe
Species:	H. flavifolia
Binomial name
	Hygrocybe flavifolia; (A.H.Sm. & Hesler) Singer (1951)
Synonyms
	Hygrophorus flavifolius A.H.Sm. & Hesler (1942);

Hygrocybe flavifolia is a mushroom of the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. Found in North America, it was described as new to science by Alexander H. Smith and Lexemuel Ray Hesler in 1942 as a species of Hygrophorus.^[1] Rolf Singer transferred it to Hygrocybe in 1945.^[2]

References

^ Smith AH, Hesler LR. (1942). "Studies in North American species of Hygrophorus – II". Lloydia. 5 (1): 72.
^ Singer R. (1949). The Agaricales in Modern Taxonomy. Lilloa. Vol. 22 (2 ed.). Weinheim: Cramer. p. 154.

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