Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Omphalina acuminata Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus conic, with a very long, pointed umbo, gregarious to subcespitose, scarcely reaching 1 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid when moist, pruinose to glabrous, white, margin entire, concolorous, incurved when young: lamellae distant, broad, plane, shortdecurrent, white: spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-9 X 6^: stipe slender, whitish, pulverulent to glabrous, slightly enlarged at the base, 1 cm. long, scarcely 1 mm. thick.
Type cotlected on much decayed wood by a roadside in woods at Union Hill, 600 m. elevation, near Moneague, Jamaica, January 17, 18, 1909, W. A. Murrill 1178 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). Distribution: Vicinity of Moneague, Jamaica.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
