Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pleuropus adnatifolius Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus small, convex, not expanding, gregarious, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface smooth, dry, glabrous, estriate, uniformly milk-white, margin entire, concolorous, incurved; lamellae adnate, narrow, arcuate, distant, white to pale-rose-colored, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores broadly ellipsoid, angular, apiculate, uniguttulate, rose-colored, 8-10 X 6-7 m; stipe rather slender, fleshy, solid, smooth, glabrous, white, about 3 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type collected in sand and gravel by the roadside at Preston's Ravine, near Palo Alto, California, November 25, 1911, W. A. Murrill &= L. R. Abrams 1199 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
