Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Crepidotus tiliophilus (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 886. 1887
Agaricus tiliophilus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 35: 133. 1884.
Pileus moderately thin, convex, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface minutely pulverulent, hygrophanous, watery-brown and striatulate on the margin when moist, dingy-buff when dry; lamellae rather broad, subdistant, rounded behind, adnexed, concolorous, becoming ferruginous-cinnamon; spores subellipsoid, brownish-ferruginous, 6-7.5 X 4-5 /a; stipe solid, often curved, pruinose, whitish-pubescent at the base, 4-8 mm. long, about 2 mm. thick.
Type; locality: East Berne, New York.
Habitat: On dead trunks and branches of basswood, Tilia americana.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
