Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Galerula lignicola Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thin, plane, with a very small, conic umbo, gregarious, 2 cm. broad; surface glabrous, dull-watery-isabelline, striate, margin entire, concolorous, brown in dried specimens; lamellae sinuate, narrow, crowded, fulvous, finely serrulate on the edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, melleous under the microscope, 7 X 4-5 y. ; stipe slender, subequal, smooth, glabrous, latericious, whitish-mycelioid at the base, 3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.
Type collected on decayed coniferous wood at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York, October 3-14, 1912, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 1043 (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
