Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pluteus roseocandidus Atk. Ann. Myc. 7: 373. 1909
Pileus convex to expanded, upturned with age, gregarious, 2-3 cm. broad; surface purewhite, showing a tint of rose in wet weather, smooth, margin striate, thin; lamellae purewhite, becoming rose-colored, elliptic, not very crowded, very slightly adnexed, rounded behind; spores globose or subglobose, pale-flesh-colored, coarsely granular, smooth, 7-8 m; stipe even, smooth, fibrous-striate, slightly mealy at the apex, hollow, fragile, hairy at the base, sometimes compressed, 3-4 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Cascadilla woods, Ithaca, New York.
Habitat: On grassy ground.
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
