Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca subcinerea (Peck) Murrill
Tricholoma subcinereum Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 131: 27. 1909.
Pileus thin, plane or centrally depressed, 4—6.5 cm. broad; surface subglabrous, whitish, pale-cinereous, or grayish-brown, the center sometimes a little darker and with a slight pruinose appearance; context white, odor strong, taste slightly and tardily acrid; lamellae thin, close, slightly sinuate, white; spores broadly ellipsoid, 7.5-9 X 6-7 p stipe central or eccentric, equal or slightly thickened toward the base, solid, silky-fibrillose, whitish or brown externally, brownish within, 4-7.5 cm. long, 6-14 mm. thick.
Type locality: Pittsford, Monroe County, New York. '* Habitat: On earth or buried wood in a cellar. Distribution : Massachusetts and New York.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY