Associations
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Plant / associate
fruitbody of Pholiota lenta is associated with Broadleaved trees
Plant / associate
fruitbody of Pholiota lenta is associated with Pinopsida
Comprehensive Description
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Gymnopilus lentus (Pers.) Murrill
Agaricus lentus Pers. Syn. Fung. 287. 1801. Flammula lenta Gill. Champ. Fr. 1: 533. 1878. Flammula betulina Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 100. 1907.
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming nearly plane, 6-10 cm. broad; surface floccose or fibrillose, smooth or roughish, viscid when young, subviscid when old, whitish or buff, some205
times slightly appendiculate on the margin; context white ; lamellae thin, broad, crowded, ventricose, adnate or decurrent with a tooth, whitish, becoming cinnamon-brown; spores
ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 m; stipe fleshy, fragile, equal, fibrous, stuffed, striate at the apex, whitish, 5-7 cm. long, 6-9 mm. thick.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On dead trunks.
Distribution: New York to South Carolina in the eastern United States; 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
