Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pluteus ludovicianus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather firm, convex to expanded, somewhat plicate, solitary, 5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, hygrophanous, dark-tan, pale-fuliginous in dried specimens, margin paler, striate; lamellae free, broad, crowded, white to salmon-colored, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores globose or subglobose, smooth, rose-colored, 6-7 /x; stipe tapering upward from a subbulbous base, smooth, glabrous, shining, pallid or pale-brownish, hollow, 7 cm. long, 5-8 mm.
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Type collected in soil in a wet thicket at Chalmette, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8, 1908, F. S. Earle 130 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
