Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptoniella umbilicata Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thin, convex, deeply umbilicate, solitary, 2 cm. broad; surface smooth, imiformly pale-grayish-brown, fibrillose-scaly, margin entire, concolorous, not striate; lamellae adnexed or subadnate, distant, plane, rather narrow, pallid to salmon-colored, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores broadly ellipsoid, irregular, angular, obliquely apiculate, rose-colored, 8-10.5 X 7 m; stipe slender, equal, cartilaginous, solid, smooth, glabrous, pallid, 4 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.
Type collected in soil by the roadside in mixed woods at West Park, New York , July 30, 1903, F. S. Earle 1580 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Connecticut and New York.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
