Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Russula decolorans Fries, Epicr. Myc. 361. 1838
Agaricus decolorans Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 56. 1821. Russulina decolorans Schrot. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3^: 551. 1889.
Pileus globose, becoming plane with the center slightly depressed, up to 10 cm. broad; surface varying from light-red to coppery-orange, bronzy-old-rose, or salmon, the center often ocher, fading, viscid when moist, pellicle partly separable, glabrous; margin even, becoming striate with age: context white, becoming cinereous with age or where injured, firm, becoming fragile with age, the taste mild; lamellae white, becoming maize-yellow, somewhat gray in drying, equal, some forking next to the stipe, venoseconnected, acute at the inner ends and broad at the outer, rather broad, close; stipe white, becoming cinereous, nearly equal, firm, becoming spongy, 6-9 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. thick: spores pitchpin, subglobose, coarsely echinu-
late, 8.5-9 X 10.5 ju.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: In coniferous or mixed woods.
Distribution: New England to I^ong Island and west to Michigan; also in Europe.
- 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
