Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Prunulus occidentalis Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus copvex, not fully expanding, not umbonate, sometimes slightly mnbilicate with age, or at least on drying, densely cespitose, abimdant, reaching 2 cm. broad; surface smooth, dry or moist, glabrous, fumosousavellaneous, darker when yotuig, margin entire, concolorous, striate: lamellae adnate to the enlarged apex of the stipe, rather distant, inserted, narrow behind, white to gray, fumosous-avellaneous on drying: spores ellipsoid, slightly pointed at one end, smooth, hyaline, 7-8 X 4-5 /x: stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, poUshed, smooth, glabrous, hollow, whitish-myceUoid at the base, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4 mm, thick.
Type collected on a dead coniferous log at Mill City, Oregon, November 9, 1911, W. A. Murrill 879 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Habitat: Dead coniferous logs.
Distribution: Washington, Oregon, and California.
- 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
