Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Naucoria sphagnorum Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus conic to campanulate, umbonate, gregarious, 2-2.5 cm. broad; surface moist, smooth, glabrous, striate, bay, paler on the margin; lamellae adnexed, rather crowded, fulvousisabelline, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, melleous under the microscope, 8-9 X 5-6 /*; stipe equal, fibrillose, latericious, cartilaginous, 6 cm. long,
3 mm, thick.
Type collected in sphagnum in a peat bog at Seattle, Washington, October 20-November 1, 1911, W. A. Murrill 482 (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
