Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Venenarius russuloides (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 77. 1913
Agaricus (Amanita) russuloides Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1: 41. 1873.
Pileus convex to expanded, 4—6 cm. broad; surface paleyellow, at first decorated with a
few white volval fragments, becoming glabrous and viscid, margin tuberculate-striate; lamellae
broad, crowded, white, narrowed behind; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 10X7-8 ju; stipe
equal or slightly tapering above, bulbous, white, smooth, glabrous, firm, stuffed, 5-8 cm.
long, 0.5-1 cm. thick; annulus thin, white, subevanescent ; volva white, fragile, subappressed
to the globose bulb, the margin entire or dentate.
Type locality: Greenbush, New York.
Habitat: Grassy ground in open woods or groves.
Distribution: Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Michigan.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
