Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca semivestita (Peck) Murrill
Tricholoma semivestitum Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 485. 1895.
Pileus thin, expanded, the center depressed or subumbilicate, 12-24 mm. broad; surface dry, blackish-brown, glabrous, margin deflexed or involute ; lamellae emarginate, close, whitish tinged with blue, edges often dentate; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, uninucleate, 4-5 X4/*; stipe short, slightly thickened at the base, brown, tomentose below, solid, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick.
Type IvOCAUity: Rooks County, Kansas.
Habitat: On old grass roots in a sandy prairie pasture.
Distribution: Kansas.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
