Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hygrophorus montanus Murrill, Mycologia 3: 199. 1911
Pileus plane or convex, smooth, depressed, gregarious, 2.5 cm. broad; surface smooth, viscid, stramineous to isabelline, with a testaceous tint, margin incurved, white, entire : lamellae adnexed, rather broad, yellowish -white, discolored in blotches on drying, pruinose on the edges: spores pip-shaped, smooth, faintly yellowish, 8-10 X 4-5 ;u: stipe shining, watery -white, smooth, cylindric, equal, fleshy-fibrous, 4 cm. long, 5 mm. thick : veil very slight, not forming an annulus.
Type locality: New Haven Gap, Jamaica. Habitat: On the ground in a trail. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
