Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geopetalum albescens Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus very soft, fleshy, appearing water-soaked, dimidiate to subcircular, thin, convex, sessile, attached by a narrow base, 2-3 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, very dtdl whitish, becoming milk-white on drying, glabrous, lightly striate for some distance from the margin, which is thin, entire, concolorous, and usually upturned in fresh plants: context very thin, white; lamellae rather broad, not crowded, inserted, concolorous with the siu-face, becoming yellowish-white on drying: spores copious, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, rounded at both' ends,
7-9 X 4-5 ^, the spore-print assuming a salmon tint on exposure.
Type collected on a dead birch stump in thin woods in the New York Botanical Garden, September 4, 1915, W. A. Murrill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
