Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Clitocybe trullisata (Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 195. 1887
Agaricus (Clitocybe) trullisatus Kllis, Bull. Torrey Club 5: 45. 1874.
Pileus fleshy, convex or plane, becoming depressed in the center, solitary or sparsely gregarious, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface innately fibrous, squamose or squamulose, smoother at the center, reddish-flesh-colored, margin thin: lamellae unequal, subdistant, thick, adnate or with a decurrent tooth, at first purplishviolet, then brick-red and pruinose or whitish-pulverulent: spores oblong or cylindric, smooth, granular within, 15-20 X 8-9 /z: stipe stuffed, fibrillose, concolorous, the base enlarged, deeply radicate and clavate-thickened, covered with a mass of mycelium and adhering sand, 2.5-7 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick.
Type WJCAUTy: Newfield, New Jersey. Habitat: Sandy soil in old fields. Distribution: New York and New Jersey.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
