Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Clitocybe lactariiformis Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex to expanded, becoming depressed or umbilicate, gregarious, 2-3 cm. broad ; surface dry, smooth, glabrous, palesmoky-gray or murinous, darker gray on the disk: context very thin, white, the odor not characteristic; lamellae decurrent, arcuate, narrow, subcrowded, white: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5 X 3 /x: stipe cylindric, smooth, glabrous, hollow, usually white but at times concolorous, 3-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type collected in humus in mixed woods at Unaka Springs, Tennessee, August 18-24, 1904, W. A. Murrill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Habitat: In humus in moist, mixed woods.
Distribution: Southern Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama.
- 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
