Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Lepiota hemisphaerica Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus small, rather thick, campanulate to hemispheric, with a prominent, rounded umbo, scattered, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface uniformly milk-white, unchanging, densely pulverulent, not glabrescent, margin entire, concolorous; lamellae broad, plane, subdistant, yellowish, unchanging; spores irregularly ellipsoid, appendiculate, smooth, hyaline, 4X2/*; stipe very slender, equal, pruinose to subglabrous, white with a. rufous tint, slightly darker on drying, 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick; veil slight, evanescent.
Type collected on the ground in mixed woods among dead leaves and sticks at Unaka Springs, Tennessee, August 18-24, 1904, W. A. Murrill 879.
Distribution : Known only from the .type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
