Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Galerula crispa (Longyear) Murrill
Agaricus lateritius Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 265. 1821. Not A. lateritius Schaeff. 1774.
Galera lateritia Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 337. 1873.
Galera crispa longyear, Bot. Gaz. 28: 272. 1899.
Galera simulans Earle, Inform. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1 : 236. 1906.
Galera grisea Earle, Inform. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 237. 1906.
Pileus thin, narrowly conic or acorn-shaped, often becoming campanulate, 2-6 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, isabelline to fulvous when moist, whitish or ochraceous when dry, margin finely striate; lamellae narrow or linear, crowded, ascending, nearly free, pale-cinnamon or
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tawny-ferruginous; spores ellipsoid, ferruginous, 12-14 X 8-10 /a ; stipe straight, slender, fragile, hollow, minutely striate, sprinkled with minute, mealy particles or clothed with a minute villosity, white or yellowish, 8-10 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type locality: Michigan.
Habitat: On manure or rich cultivated or grassy ground.
Distribution: Maine to Cuba and Jamaica and west to California; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
