Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pluteolus flavellus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus fragile, convex to expanded, not umbonate, scattered, reaching 4 cm. broad; surface glabrous, viscid when young, Hght-brownish-yellow, margin pallid, deeply striate, splitting with age; context thin, .bright-yellow, the taste mild; lamellae adnexed, narrow, crowded, pale-lemon-yellow, fading in herbarium specimens and not showing coloration by the spores, finely serrulate on the edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, ferruginous under the microscope, scanty, uniguttulate, 12-13 X 8-9 mJ stipe equal, hollow, smooth, pruinose-furfuraceous, lemonyellow with a whitish bloom, 4-7 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type collected in soil by the roadside in the New York Botanical Garden, June 13, 1900, F. S. Earle 90 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
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
