Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptoniella flavobrunnea (Peck) Murrill
Leptonia Jlavobrunnea Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 36: 332. 1909.
Pileus thin, fragile, convex, umbillcate or centrally depressed, decurved on the margin, sometimes becoming nearly plane, gregarious, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface subhygrophanous, minutely tomentose at the center, dark-brown or reddish-brown when young and moist, yellowish-brown when dry; context having a slightly farinaceous taste; lamellae adnate or subdecurrent, somewhat crowded, pale-lemon-yellow, becoming reddish-ocher or pinkish, sometimes transversely venose; spores subglobose, angular, uninucleate, obliquely apiculate at one end, 8 /i; stipe slender, fragile, flexuous, terete or compressed, stuffed or hoUow, glabrous, fibrous, pallid or lemon-yellow, becoming brownish-yellow, often curved and white at the base, 5-7.5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type locality: Stow, Massachusetts. Habitat: In swamps under deciduous trees. 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
