Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca lateraria (Peck) Murrill
Agaricus {Tricholoma) laterarius Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sri. 1: 43. 1873.
Pileus convex or nearly plane, sometimes slightly depressed in the center, gregarious to cespitose, 5-12 cm. broad; surface dry, pruinose, white to rosy-isabelline, the disk often tinged With brick-red or brown; margin incurved when young, then marked with slight, subdistant, short, radiating ridges; context white, odor farinaceous, taste bitter; lamellae plane in mass, narrow, crowded, emarginate, decurrent in slight lines, white; spores globose, 4-6 m J stipe nearly equal, solid, white, 5-7.5 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick.
Type locality: Worcester, New York. Habitat: On rotten wood or leaf -mold in woods. Distribution: Northeastern United States.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
