Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pluteolus versicolor (Peck) Murrill
Galera versicolor Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 143. 1897.
Pileus thin, fragile, convex or subcampanulate, 3.5-6.5 cm. broad; surface moist or slightly viscid, glabrous, usually pale-yellow, sometimes brownishtan-colored, margin striate ; lamellae crowded, white or pale-yellow, becoming reddish-ferruginous; spores very unequal in size, 12.5-20 X 7.5-12.5 m, usually containing one to three nuclei; stipe equal, fragile, hollow, slightly mealy or pruinose, often tomentose at the base, white, 2.5-10 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Brookings, South Dakota.
Habitat: On manure and other decaying vegetable matter.
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
