Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Prunulus corticalis (Bull.) Murrill
? Agaricus clavularis Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. I: 89. 1786. Agaricus corticalis Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 519, f. 1. 1790. Agaricus corticola Pers. Syn. Fung. 394. 1801. Mycena corticola Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg, 75. 1872.
Pileus thin, hemispheric, slightly umbilicate, 2-6 mm. broad; surface reddish-brown, bluish, or cinereous, floccose-pruinose, margin sulcate-striate: lamellae adnate, uncinate, broad, subovate, pallid: spores sphaeroid, 9-10 m: stipe thin, short, incurved, furfuraceous, 1-2 mm. long.
Type locality: France.
Habitat: On bark among moss and lichens.
Distribution: Maine to Louisiana and west to Michigan.
- 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
