Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca paeonia (Fries) Murrill
Agaricus paeonius Fries, Epicr. Myc, 42. 1838.
Agaricus carneus Pers. Syn. Fung. 340. 1801. Not A. carneus Schaeff. 1774.
Tricholoma carneum Gill. Champ. Fr. 115. 1876.
Pileus subfleshy, convex to plane, 2-5 cm. broad; surface flesh-colored, silky to glabrous,
margin floccose; lamellae rounded, free, ventricose, white; spores ellipsoid, 2.5 X 1.7 m; stipe
soft, fragile, subpulverulent at the apex, persistently red, hollow, 2-5 cm. long.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: Grassy or mossy places.
Distribution : New York ; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
