Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Naucoria lateritia Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus conic to campanulate, not fully expanding, with a prominent umbo, gregarious, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, striate when fresh, glabrous, latericious, fading in herbarium specimens, margin entire, concolorous; lamellae sinuate, ventricose, subdistant, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, pale-yellow under the microscope, 7 X 3-4 fx stipe subequal, rather slender, cartilaginous, smooth, glabrous, bay, 3 cm. long, 1.5 mm. thick.
Type collected on dead wood by the roadside in woods at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York, October 3-14, 1912, W. A. &> Edna L. Murrill 559 (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
