planoconvex with a slightly incurved margin at first, becoming shallowly depressed, with a wavy margin and a small umbo; moist; bald; dark grayish brown to dark yellowish brown at first, fading markedly to medium yellowish brown (but often retaining a darker center); the margin becoming slightly translucent-lined...
or slightly lined when wet; nearly bald, or finely hairy-scaly; deep purple, soon fading to brown or buff. gills: attached to the stem; distant or nearly so; thick; sometimes appearing waxy; dark purple, fading to lilac. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; equal or slightly swollen at the base; strongly grooved...
; finely hairy to finely scaly or more prominently roughened; purplish when young but soon reddish brown, brownish, or buff. gills: attached to the stem; close or nearly distant; dark purple. stem: - cm long; up to about cm thick; usually with an enlarged base; hairy and often longitudinally lined; the...
broom cells in the cap cuticle. description: ecology: saprobic on leaf litter and woody debris in hardwood forests; growing alone or gregariously; summer and fall; probably widely distributed east of the rocky mountains. cap: to cm across; convex, becoming flat; not pleated; bald; becoming faintly lined...
new york--but apparently less common in northeastern areas. cap: - cm; convex when young, later flat or broadly convex, with a central depression; dry; densely covered with pigment patches that break up as the mushroom matures; brownish yellow to rusty, orangish brown or brick red; the margin not lined...
, or faintly lined at maturity; the skin tightly adnate, not peeling easily. gills: attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; distant; whitish to creamy, becoming dull yellow; often with a water-soaked appearance; sometimes spotting and discoloring reddish brown. stem: - cm long; - cm thick;...
gregariously; summer and fall; apparently widely distributed from texas to maine. cap: - cm; round to convex when young, becoming broadly convex to flat, with a shallow depression; dry; velvety; the surface soon cracking up to form large crustose patches up to mm across; green to blue-green; the margin lined...
distribution uncertain (originally recorded from michigan; since reported from west virginia and, here, from illinois). the illustrated and described collection is from illinois. cap: – cm across; broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; bald; medium gray overall, with a darker gray center; the margin finely lined...
. gills: free from the stem by maturity; crowded; whitish or pale yellowish; short-gills frequent. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; tapering to apex and ending in a swollen bulb; bald or scurfy; yellow, fading to whitish; with a skirtlike, yellow, lined ring ; base with concentric yellow girdles of universal...
or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed, as a species group, east of the rocky mountains. cap: - cm; convex, expanding to planoconvex or flat; brown; often darker in the center; adorned with grayish patches ; bald beneath the patches; tacky when young, but soon dry; the margin strongly lined...