Agrocybe smithii is a species of mushroom in the genus Agrocybe. This species is a pileate-stipitate fungi, and has a medium size of fruitbodies. The cap is convex to plane-convex; yellowish brown. The hymenium is gilled with adnexed gills, initially whitish, but later dark brown. Odour mealy and taste bitter. The stipe is central, cylindrical and lacks a partial veil; usually has mycelial cords in the stipe base. Its spores are short, broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth with a germ pore. Its pellis has large, rather inflated cheilocystidia which are more or less flask-shaped.[1] Often found growing on wood chips.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Strophariaceae |
| Genus: | Agrocybe |
| Species: | A. smithii
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| Binomial name | |
| Agrocybe smithii Watling & H.E.Bigelow
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References
edit- ^ Watling R, Bigelow HE. (1983). "Observations on the Bolbitiaceae – 22". Mycotaxon. 17: 377–97.
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