Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Claudopus multiformis Murrill
Agaricus variabilis Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 46. 1799. Not A. variabilis Batsch, 1783. Claudopus variabilis Gill. Champ. Fr. 426. 1876.
Pileus fleshy, resupinate to reflexed, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface white, smooth, tomentose; lamellae distant, broad, white to red; spores ellipsoid, pale-red, 6-7 X 2.5-4 m; stipe eccentric or wanting, short, incurved, villose.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On decayed wood, usually spruce.
Distribution: Massachusetts and North Carolina; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
