Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Clitocybe dicolor (Pers.) Murrill, Mycologia 7: 260. 1915
Agaricus cyathiformis Bull. Herb. Fr. pL 248. 1785. Not A. cyatUformis Schaeff. 1774. Agaricus dicolor Pers. Syn. Fung. 462. 1801. Agaricus metachrous Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 172. 1821. Clitocybe metachroa Qu61. Champ. Jura Vosg. 216. 1872.
Pileus thin, convex becoming plane or centrally depressed, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface glabrous, hygrophanous, brownish or grayish-brown when young and moist, whitish when dry, margin slightly striate when old: lamellae thin, narrow, crowded, linear, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish or cinereous: spores 6-8 X 3-4 m: stipe equal, tough, externally fibrous, stuffed or hollow, terete or compressed, whitish, mealy or pruinose at the apex, concolorous, 3-4 cm. long, 4^8 mm. thick.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: Pine woods.
Distribution: New York; also in Europe.
- 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
