Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Melanoleuca tenuipes Murrill, Mycologia 5: 223. 1913
Tricholoma tenuipes Murrill, Mycologia 5: 223. 1913.
Pileus small, thin, convex, not expanding, becoming very slightly depressed at the center, 2 cm. broad; surface pallid, with a stramineous or avellaneous tint, smooth, glabrous, margin entire, concolorous, incurved ; lamellae sinuate-adnexed, distant, broad, several times inserted, white, more or less notched on the edge; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5-7X3.5-4.5 fx stipe slender, equal, solid, concolorous, white at the apex, smooth, dry, glabrous, 4 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.
Type locality: Seattle, Washington. Habitat: On the ground 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