Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hebeloma lateritium Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex, becoming nearly plane with age, umbonate, gregarious, 5 cm. broad; surface distinctly viscid, smooth, glabrous, latericious, margin entire, not striate, avellaneous to cream-colored as the moisture escapes; lamellae sinuate, rather crowded, ventricose, pallid to clay-colored, conspicuously whitish-pubescent on the edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, paleyellowish under the microscope, 7-8 X 5 /x; stipe enlarged below, white, conspicuously fibrillose, fleshy, 6 cm. long, 7-10 mm. thick.
Type collected in sandy soil at the edge of a virgin forest at Seattle, Washington, October 20November 1, 1911, W. A. Murrill 295 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Vicinity of Seattle, Washington.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
