Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Camarophyllus auratocephalus (Ellis) Murrill
Agaricus {Clitocybe) auratocephalus Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 75. 1876. Clitocybe chrysocephala Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 190. 1887. Hygrophorus mephiticus Peck, BuU. Torrey Club 33: 213. 1906.
Pileus obtuse-conic, expanding to convex, with a fleshy umbo, gregarious or subcespitose, about 3.5 cm, broad; surface smooth but of fibrous texture, at length more or less rimosestriate, golden-yellow: context having a strong, peculiar smell when fresh, and especially when drying: lamellae broad, ventricose, fleshy, subsinuate with a decurrent tooth, not crowded, golden-yellow, becoming orange-red in drying: spores short-oblong, somewhat irregular in shape, 10/i long: stipe usually compressed and crooked, attenuate at both ends, hollow, smooth, brittle, golden -yellow, 7.5-10 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick.
Type LOCAI.ITY: Newfield, New Jersey. Habitat: In swampy ground.
Distribution: Massachusetts, southern New York, New Jersey, and the mountains of western North Carolina.
- 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
