Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Naucoria paludosella Atk. Jour. Myc. 12: 193. 1906
Pileus convex to expanded, somewhat depressed when old, 2.5-3 cm. broad; surface viscid when moist, clay-colored, darker at the center, often covered with darker, appressed, claybrown scales ; lamellae emarginate, adnate, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, easily becoming free, raw-umber to Mars-brown; spores subovoid to subellipsoid, smooth, fuscous-ferruginous, dull-ochraceous under a microscope, 9 X 4—5 p; stipe cartilaginous, floccose, concolorous, but paler, at length hollow, bulbous and covered with a whitish mycelium at the base, 6-8 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick; veil rather thick, floccose, disappearing, leaving remnants on the stipe and margin of the pileus when fresh.
Type locality: Buckeye Lake, Ohio.
Habitat: On living sphagnum and other mosses and on rotten wood. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
