Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pleurotopsis calospora (Pat.) Murrill
Crinipellis calosporus Pat.; Duss, Enum. Champ. Guad. 44. 1903.
Pileus resupinate, becoming dimidiate, thin, membranous, 2 mm. broad; surface white, glabrescent, the cuticle consisting of elongate, tough, thick-walled cells 4-5 ju in diameter, margin smooth or sulcate; lamellae radiating from an eccentric point, distant, 5-7 in number, not interveined, thin, entire, whitish-yellow: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline tinged with rose, 10X7 /x; cystidia clavate, thickwalled, hyaline, often encrusted above, 33X10-15 ^i.
Type locai,ity: Bains-Jaunes, Guadeloupe. Habitat: On dead twigs in woods. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- 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
