Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Lentinus albellus Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. IS: 195. 1899
Pileus fleshy, thick, hard, convex, 5-8 cm. broad; surface white, marked with brown, spotlike scales, margin plicatewrinkled and deflexed: lamellae decurrent, distant, broad, thick, dentate, white: stipe nearly central, hard, cylindric, armed with thick, large, distant, recurved, concolorous scales, solid, thick and tuberculose, whitish above, villose-fm-furaceous and rustybrown below, 7-10 cm. long.
Type locality: Guadeloupe.
Habitat: On rotten trunks of Anona muricata.
Distribution; Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
