Characteristic features of pholiota spumosa (pictures and text)
provided by EOL authors
Guidance for identification (German text)
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopilus spumosus (Pries) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 254
1912.
Agaricus spumosus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 252. 1821.
Flammula spumosa P. Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 404. 1879.
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse or umbonate, gregarious or cespitose, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, viscid, pale-yellow, tinged with reddish-tawny or brownish hues at the center; context pale-yellow or greenish-yellow; lamellae thin, crowded, adnate, pale-yellow when young, becoming ferruginous or fulvous; spores ellipsoid, dark-ferruginous, 7.5 X4-5/j; stipe rather slender, equal or tapering at the base, fibrillose, hollow, yellowish, generally becoming brownish or ferruginous toward the base, 3.5-7.5 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On the ground or rarely on decaying wood.
Distribution: Canada to Alabama and west to Washington and California; also in Europe
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
