Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca subacuta (Peck) Murrill
Tricholoma subacutum Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: 112. 1889.
Pileus at first ovoid or broadly conic, then convex and subacutely'umbonate, 4-7.5 cm. broad ; surface dry, silky and obscurely virgate with minute innate fibrils, whitish tinged with smoky-brown or bluishgray, darker on the umbo; context white, taste acrid or peppery; lamellae rather close, slightly adnexed, white; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 6-7.5 X /*; stipe equal, stuffed or hollow, silky-fibrillose, white, 5-10 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick
Type locality : North Elba, New York.
Habitat: In spruce and balsam fir woods.
Distribution: New York and New Brunswick.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
