Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Naucoria harperi Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex to plane, thin, gregarious, 2-2.5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, glabrous, uniformly leather-colored, margin entire, concolorous, striate, not projecting and not inflexed on drying; lamellae adnate, distant, ventricose, not very broad, ferruginous, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, apiculate, palemelleous under the microscope, 7-8 X 4-5 m5 stipe rather slender, equal or tapering upward, concolorous, glabrous above, whitish-floccose below, 3-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type collected on a lawn at Berkeley, California, March 8, 1911, R. A. Harper 64 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
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