Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hebeloma appendiculatum Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex, not fully expanding, slightly gibbous, rather thick and fleshy, cespitose, 5 cm. broad; surface viscid, silky and also finely imbricate-squamulose, rosy-isabelline, cremeous on the disk, margin deflexed, concolorous, appendiculate with triangular fragments of the slight, evanescent veil; context white, thick at the center, with nutty flavor; lamellae sinuate, broad behind and tapering in front, quite narrow, arcuate, very much crowded, pale-creamcolored, not darkening on drying, the edges pallid and distinctly crenate or dentate; spores ellipsoid, smooth, pale-clay-colored in mass, pale-melleous under the microscope, 6-7 X 3-4 jjl; stipe equal, spongy-stuffed with creamy-white pith, glabrous at the apex, white above, concolorous below, revolute-squamulose, 4 cm. long, 1 cm. thick.
Type collected on the ground at the base of a sugar maple tree on a lawn in the New York Botanical Garden, September 4, 1912, W. A. Murrill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY