Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Crepidotus subcuneiformis Murrill, Mycologia 5: 29. 1913
Pileus thin, rather firm, fragile on drying, broadly wedge-shaped, approaching orbicular, in outline, plane above, tapering to a rather broad base which is not strigose, gregarious, reaching 1 cm. broad and becoming somewhat longer; surface glabrous or pulverulent, moist, dull-isabelline to avellaneous-isabellme, margin very thin, entire, not striate ; lamellae radiating from the sessile base, subcrowded, plane, dull-yellowish to umbrinous; spores ovoid, smooth, melleous under a microscope, uniguttulate, 7-8 X 5 /z.
Type locality: Grenada, West Indies. Habitat: On decaying cocoanut husks. 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