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Plant / associate
fruitbody of Galerina sphagnorum is associated with Sphagnum
Comprehensive Description
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Galerula sphagnorum (Pers.) Murrill
Agaricus hypnorum sphagnorum Pers. Syn. Fung. 386. 1801. Agaricus sphagnorum L-asch, Linnaea 3: 417. 1828. Galera sphagnorum Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 869. 1887. Conocybe sphagnorum Murrill, Mycologia 4: 248. 1912.
Pileus thin, conic-convex or expanded, sometimes with a small umbo or papilla, 1.5-3 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, tawny or subochraceous and usually striate on the margin when moist, pale-ochraceous or buff when dry; lamellae thin, subdistant, tawnyochraceous; spores ellipsoid or subovoid, 10-12 X 6-8 fx; stipe slender, hollow, more or less fibrillose, subflexuous, concolorous, 8-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick; veil quite evident at times.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: In sphagnum marshes.
Distribution: Northern United States and Canada; also in Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
