Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Clitocybe subclavipes Murrill, sp. no v
Pileus convex, subumbonate, solitary or gregarious, 5-8 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, glabrous, pale-rosy-isabelHne with avellaneous shades, often pale-bay on the disk, margin entire, pallid, inflexed on drying: context white, rather firm, the taste nutty; lamellae short-decurrent, narrow, arcuate, distant, firm, white to cream-colored: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaUne, 5-7
X 3-4 ju: stipe smooth, glabrous, concolorous, solid, conspicuously bulbous and whitish-myce-
lioid below, 5-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick.
Type collected on the ground in coniferous woods at Lake Placid, New York, October 3-14, 1912, W.A.S^ Edna L. Murrill 457 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Adirondack region of New York; Massachusetts.
- 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
