Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Entoloma variabile Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: 145
1901.
Pileus thin, conic, ovate or subcampanulate, umbonate, obtuse or subumbilicate, 1.5-3 cm. broad; surface moist, slightly fibrillose, pale-yellow when young, becoming reddish-brown with age, either wholly or at the center only; lamellae ascending, rather crowded, broad in front, often eroded on the edges, white or whitish, becoming pale-salmon-colored; spores subglobose, angular, uninucleate, 10-12.5 ju; stipe long, slender, equal, hollow, slightly fibrillosestriate, whitish or pallid, sometimes becoming reddish-brown with age, often with a whitish mycelium at the base, 7.5-12.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Floodwood, Franklin County, New York. Habitat: In sphagnum marshes. Distribution: New York and Massachusetts.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY