Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Venenarius frostianus (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 76. 1913
Agaricus muscarius minor Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23: 69. 1872. Agaricus Frostianus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 33: 44. 1883. Amanita flavoconia Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 110. 1902.
Pileus thin, convex to expanded, plane or slightly umbonate, 3-8 cm. broad; surface
viscid, adorned with fioccose, yellow fragments of the volva, often becoming entirely glabrous,
chrome-yellow to orange-yellow, slightly darker in the center, margin smooth or slightly
striate; lamellae free, rounded at both ends, subdistant, white or yellowish; spores globose or
ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-10^ long; stipe slightly tapering upward from the bulbous base,
white or yellowish, smooth, flocculose, stuffed, 6-13 cm. long, 0.4-1.5 cm. thick; annulus
membranous, delicate, easily torn away, pale-yellow to chrome-yellow; volva yellowish,
usually entirely friable, rarely slightly margining the bulb.
Type locality: New York.
Habitat: Woods.
Distribution: New Brunswick to Alabama and west to Wisconsin.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
