Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Crepidotus calolepis (Fries) Quel. Erich. Fung. 108. 1886
Agaricus calolepis Fries, Oefv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 30 6 : 5. 1873. Crepidotus fulvotomentosus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 57. 1874.
Pileus suborbicular, reniform, or dimidiate, sessile or attached by a short, white-villose tubercle or rudimentary stipe, scattered or gregarious, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, watery-brown and sometimes striatulate on the margin when moist, whitish, yellowish, or pale-ochraceous when dry, adorned with small, tawny or reddish-brown, hairy or tomentose scales; lamellae broad, subventricose, moderately crowded, rounded behind, radiating from a lateral or eccentric white-villose spot, whitish, becoming brownish-ferruginous ; spores ellipsoid, often uniguttulate, 8-9 X 5-6 fi.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: Dead wood of poplar, basswood, and various other trees. Distribution: Throughout temperate North America; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
