Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptoniella occidentalis Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus broad, thin, regular, convex to plane, not umbonate, solitary, 2-3 cm. broad; surface dry, finely scabrous or fibriUose, not striate, uniformly very dark steel-blue-violet or lilac-black, margin entire, concolorous; context exceedingly thin; lamellae adnexed with a slight decurrent tooth, several times inserted, rather broad, ventricose, distant, entire on the edges, white to lilac or salmon-colored; spores eUipsoid, angular, apiculate, uniguttulate, 9-10 X 6-7 At; stipe slender, equal, glabrous, cartilaginous, concolorous, whitish-mycelioid at the base, 4-5 cm. long, 2-3 mm, thick.
Type collected on the ground among humus under fir trees in mixed woods at Corvallis, Oregon, November 6-11, 1911, W. A, Murrill 978 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Oregon and California.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
