A new name is introduced for the small-sized variant of Melanoleuca polioleuca, formerly also recognized as f. oreina. The authors demonstrate that the use of this epithet is undesirable because it is not likely that Agaricus oreinus Fr.: Fr. represents the same taxon.

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Boekhout, T., & Kuyper, T. (1996). Notulae ad Floram agaricinam neerlandicam — XXX. Melanoleuca polioleuca forma pusilla Boekhout & Kuyper. A new name for Melanoleuca polioleuca forma oreina (Fr.: Fr.) Boekhout. Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi, 16(2), 253–254.