Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Clitocybe overholtsii Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex to expanded, gregarious, 6-15 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, glabrous or rarely with a bloom, white, becoming grayish with age, margin thin, entire or undulate, white: context white, the odor and taste disagreeable; lamellae adnate or slightly decurrent, narrow, very much crowded, white or yellowish: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 X,3-3.5jLt: stipe smooth, glabrous, white, solid or rarely hollow, enlarged and whitish-mycelioid at the base, 7-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick.
Type collected on the ground in a coniferous forest at Tolland, Colorado, 2,700 m. elevation, August 5, 1914, L. O. Overholts 2114 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). Distribution: Colorado, at high elevations.
- 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
