Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca lata (Peck) Murrill
Tricholoma latum Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 167: 31. 1913.
Pileus fleshy, firm but flexible, broadly convex or nearly plane, gregarious, reaching 5-10 cm. broad ; surface moist, glabrous, white or whitish ; context white, taste diagreeable ; lamellae plane or slightly arcuate in mass, narrow, close, rounded behind, adnexed, white or whitish, becoming dingy or tinged with reddish-brown when old; spores oblong or subfusiform, 10-12 X 3.5-4 m; stipe short, nearly equal, solid or stuffed, slightly pruinose at the top, more or less whitish-tomentose at the base, colored like the pileus, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick.
Type locality: Vaughns, New York.
Habitat: In woods.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
