Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopilus eccentricus (Peck) Murrill
Flammula eccentrica Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 179. 1904.
Pileus thin, broadly convex, obtuse or slightly umbilicate, 2.5-3.5 cm. broad; surface
dry, minutely squamulose, tawny, yellowish, or reddish-ferruginous; context whitish; lamellae
rather broad, crowded, somewhat sinuateadnate, dingy-ochraceous, becoming ferruginous;
spores bright-ferruginous, ellipsoid, 15-16 X 8 /z; stipe equal or slightly tapering upward,
commonly eccentric, solid, fibrillose. yellowish or dingy-ochraceous, becoming brownish
without and within, 2-3 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick.
Type locality: St. Louis, Missouri.
Habitat: On decaying wood.
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