Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tubaria luteoalba Longyear, Bot. Gaz. 28: 272. 1899
Pileus thin, convex to plane and centrally depressed, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, creamywhite or yellowish, margin often upturned, silky-squamulose from the remains of the veil, striate when moist; lamellae adnate-decurrent, subdistant, 2-4 mm. broad, at first nearly white, soon becoming ochraceous; spores ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 /n; stipe often curved, whitish, hollow, downy and slightly enlarged at the base, 1.5-2 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick.
Type locality: Michigan.
Habitat: On decaying stems and leaves of grasses and weeds in low, wet ground.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY