The gills are adnate or decurrent, thick, soft, margin obtuse.
The stem is central, its substance continuous with the flesh of the pileus. The spores are colorless, smooth, elliptical or globose. Fries.
Nyctalis asterophora. Fr.
Photo by C. G. Lloyd.
Figure 162.—Nyctalis asterophora.
Asterophora means star-bearing.
The pileus is about one-half inch broad, fleshy; conical, then hemispherical; flocculose and rather mealy, owing to the large, stellate conidia; whitish, then tinged with fawn-color.
The gills are adnate, distant, narrow, somewhat forked, straight, dingy.