VOUCHER INFORMATION
Name: Macrolepiota procera
Authority: (Scop.) Singer 1948
Vouchered by: Brad Bomanz
Date found: 8/31/2005
Synonyms:
Collected by: Brad Bomanz
Voucher ID: 23
Confirming Mycologist: Dr. Andrew Methven
LOCATION
Latitude: 038.654 N
Longitude: 090.065 W
City: Collinsville
County: St. Clair
State: Illinois
Site location: Monks Mounds
ENVIRONMENT
Habitat: bottomland - swamp
Moisture conditions: very moist
Substrate: leaf - mold
IDENTIFYING DOCUMENT
Reference document: The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms - 1981
Author:Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN No: 0-394-51992-2
Page no:520
SPORE DESCRIPTION
Spore length: 12 - 15 microns
Spore width: 9 - 10 microns
Spore color: clear
Spore texture: smooth; thickwalled
Spore shape: broadly elliptical with large pore at tip
Spore print color: white
Chemical reaction: n/d
This species has a stipe that is slender, with a bulbous base; covered with pattern of small, brownish scales, showing white between. The veil is membranous, white; leaving persistent, double-edged, movable, bandlike ring on upper stipe. Also know as Lepiota procera. 2015 DNA analysis comfirmed this species to be Macrolepiota procera.