Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptoniella mexicana Murrill, Mycologia 3: 273. 1911
Leptonia mexicana Murrill, Mycologia 4: 332. 1912.
Pileus convex to expanded, umbilicate, gregarious, 1.5 cm. broad; surface smooth, silkyfibriUose, pale-avellaneous, margin thin, fragile; lamellae adnate, broad, distant, heterophyllous, paleashy-gray with a slight rosy tint; spores polygonal, uninucleate, 7 X 4.5-5 /x; stipe slightly larger below, concolorous, glabrous, cartilaginous, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 mm. thick.
Type locality: Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Habitat: On the ground in humus in a coffee plantation. Distribution: Known only from the type locality,
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
