Comprehensive Description
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Resupinatus griseus (Peck) Murrill
Pleurotus atrocoeruleus griseus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 147 (35). 1891. Pleurotus griseus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 131: 25. 1909.
Pileus at first resupinate, becoming dimidiate, sessile, conchate, tough, often somewhat imbricate, 1.5-4 cm. broad; surface grayish or grayish-brown, clothed with rather coarse, pointed, white or grayish hairs, never dark-blue nor villose-tomentose, margin usually glabrous or becoming so: lamellae concentric, rather narrow, slightly ventricose, crowded, white or yellowish: spores pip-shaped, smooth, hyaline, 5-6X2.5-3.5 ju; cystidia fusoid, hyaline, 35-45 X6-10m.
Type locauty: Carrollton, New York.
Habitat: On dead hickory trunks and other forms of deciduous wood. Distribution: New England, New York, and west to Iowa.
- 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
