Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heliomyces peckii Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex to plane, slightly umbonate, becoming depressed around the umbo, translucent at the margin, gregarious, 1-2 cm. broad; surface smooth, pruinose to glabrous, striate over the lamellae, at least when dry, pallid, tinged with yellow on drying, margin entire,
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concolorous: lamellae rather broad, distant, twice inserted, not interveined, adnate, broad and rounded behind, attenuate toward the margin, white, becoming yellowish and very undulate on drying: stipe pruinose to glabrous, grooved and enlarged at the apex, slender and equal below, palHd or avellaneous, hollow, twisted on drying, whitish at the base, 3-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick.
Type collected on dead wood in British Honduras, 1906, Morton E. Peck (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.) . Distribution: Known only from the type locaUty.
- 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
