Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hydrocybe chlorophana (Fries) P. Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat. Folk
236. 1879.
Agaricus chlorophanus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 103. 1821. Hygrophorus chlorophanus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 332. 1838.
Pileus thin, fragile, convex to nearly plane, obtuse, striate and often lobed or split at the margin, 2-4 cm. broad; surface pale-yellow, rarely reddish at the center, glabrous, viscid: context thm, yellowish, edible; lamellae thin, fragile, adnexed, subdistant, ventricose. concolorous or paler: spores ovoid, hyaline, 7-8 X 4-5 /x: stipe cylindric, glabrous, viscid, concolorous, hollow, 3-7 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat; In damp woods.
Distribution: Maine to Alabama and west to "Wisconsin; 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
