Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pluteus umbonatus C. G. Lloyd, Myc. Notes 15. 1899
Pileus campanulate, with a prominent, blunt umbo, 4 cm. broad; surface glabrous, strongly striate to the disk, reddish-umbrinous, except on the umbo, which is almost white, glabrous. and smooth; context very thin, except at the center; lamellae broad, free, flesh-colored; spores globose, 5 juj stipe white, solid, smooth, tapering upward, 7 cm. long, 3-6 mm, thick.
Type IvOcality: Cincinnati, Ohio.
Habitat: In leaf-mold.
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