Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca alboflavida (Peck) Murrill
Agaricus alboflavidus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23: 75. 1&72.
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming plane or slightly depressed, sometimes gibbous, 5-7.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, smooth, moist in wet weather, white, sometimes tinged with yellow, margin at first involute; context white; lamellae narrow, crowded, thin, emarginate, white; spores ellipsoid, 7.5-8.7X4-5 m; stipe very slender, equal, solid, fibrillose-striate, somewhat bulbous, whitish, 7.5-10 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick.
Type locality: Sandlake, New York.
Habitat: Fields and thin woods.
Distribution: New England and New York to the mountains of Virginia.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
