Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Clitocybe robusta Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: 17
1897.
Pileus thick, firm, convex becoming plane or slightly depressed at the center, soUtary, gregarious, or cespitose, 7-10 cm. broad; surface glabrous, white or shghtly clouded at the center, margin involute or deciu-ved, naked: context white; lamellae crowded, narrow, adnate or decurrent, whitish: spores ellipsoid, yellowish, 6-8 X 4-5 /*: stipe stout, solid or hollow, glabrous, equal or tapering upward, white, 2.5-7 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. thick.
Type i<ocality: Catskill Mountains, New York,
Habitat: Among fallen leaves in woods.
Distribution: New York to Maryland and west to Wisconsin.
- 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