Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pluteus deliquescens Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus soft, watery, very fragile, deliquescent, broadly campanulate, 3.5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, glabrous, brownish, margin striate; lamellae free, broad, pallid or subconcolorous, watery; spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, rose-colored, 7 X 5-6 /t; stipe cylindric, glabrous, pallid, hollow, firm, 5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type collected on rotten wood in a swamp at New Orleans, Louisiana, September 5, 1908, F. S. Earle 53 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana,
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
