Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hebeloma parvifructum (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 805. 1887
Agaricus parvifructus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 38: 88. 1885.
Pileus convex, becoming expanded, 5-7 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid, whitish, grayishbrown or pale-chestnut, often paler on the margin; lamellae moderately crowded, slightly sinuate, white, becoming dingy-ochraceous, at first hidden by the copious, white, webby filaments of the veil; spores subochraceous, 6-7 X 4r-5 /*; stipe equal, often flexuous, solid, silkyfibrillose, pruinose and substriate at the apex, whitish above, ferruginous or brownish toward the base, 5-8 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick.
Type locality: West Albany, New York. Habitat: On sandy soil in pine woods. 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
