Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Entoloma bicolor Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather thick and firm, regular in outline, umbonate, gregarious, reaching 5 cm. broad; siu^ace smooth, dry, glabrous, shining, uniformly melleous-ochroleucous, margin concolorous, entire, striate only a very short distance; context white, with mild, farinaceous taste; lamellae smuate, rather crowded, triangular, white to pink, wavy on the edges; spores globose or subglobose, angular, apiculate, 7.5-9 m; stipe white with a satiny luster, smooth, glabrous, equal at maturity, solid, 8 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. thick.
Type collected on a warm bank in thin maple woods at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York, July 17-29, 1912, W. A. b' Edna L. Murrill 61 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: New York and New Jersey.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
