Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptoniella aeruginosa (Peck) Murrill
Leptonia aeruginosa Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 65. 1899.
Pileus thin, convex, umbihcate or centrally depressed, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; surface striate, aeruginous, fading with age to an ashy-green hue; lamellae broad, subdistant, adnate, aeruginous, tinged with flesh-color when mature; spores angular, 7.5-10 ^ long, usually containing a single large nucleus; stipe slender, glabrous, hollow, concolorous, about 2.5 cm. long and 2 mm. thick.
Type locality : Oxbow River, Canada. Habitat: In shaded places in woods. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
