A new species Crinipellis floccosa, discovered from Jiangxi and Guagndong provinces in
southern China, is formally introduced. Morphologically the new taxon is similar to C.
zonata and C. corvina, but the pale gray to reddish brown floccose squamules on the pileus
make it a distinct species, which is also supported by the molecular data based on ribosomal
RNA gene ITS sequence. The holotype is deposited in the fungal herbarium of
Guangdong Institute of Microbiology (GDGM) and the sequence data is deposited in
GenBank.