University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium: Fungi (NCU:Fungi)
NCU-F-0010440
39a38297-f8c2-46f2-a26f-c734008eaf68
6088
Elaphomyces cervinus (L.) Schltdl.
Elaphomycetaceae
Coker, William Chambers (1923-05-00)
Coker, William Chambers
s.n.
1923-05-00
May 1923
United States, South Carolina, Darlington, Hartsville
34.37389 -80.07361 +-4633m.
= Hartsville
underground in sandy soil
spores dark, spherical, 22-28 microns in diam. [diameter]. Spores mostly 22-28 microns covered with a dense layer of palisade like spines. Asci containing 1-8 spores, walls of asci hyaline & very difficult to see, irregular, thin & usually when visible already pressed to the spores. Plants varying from 1-3 cm thick, subglobose. Peridium 3-4 mm thick, when fresh. Color of peridium flesh - light ochraceous salmon [illegible] covered with small parymidal warts, end of warts light tan or yellow, while thin baes are brown giving to the peridium a distincly granular apperance. Gleba at first light salmon becoming... [the following in WC Coker's hand:] Taste slight, pleasant, odor none until mature later in age becoming obvious and rather [illegible] to [illegible] or fishy.