Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hebeloma flexuosipes Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 150: 55
1911.
Pileus thin, convex, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, slightly viscid when moist, dingybuff or clay-brown; context white; lamellae crowded, adnate, brownish-ferruginous; spores subellipsoid, brownish-ferruginous, 12-16 X 7-9 ;u; stipe equal or slightly thickened at the base, fibrous, flexuous, solid or stuffed, pruinose-pubescent and minutely glandular at the apex, pallid or similar to the pileus in color, with an abundant, white, fibrillose mycelium at the base, 3.5-7.5 cm. long, 4r-8 mm. thick.
Type locality: Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Habitat: On the ground.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY