Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus flavescens Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus fleshy, convex to expanded and at length depressed, somewhat eccentric or irregular at times, gregarious, 1-3 cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, hygrophanous, white or yellowish, becoming distinctly yellow on drying, margin concolorous, not striate, incurved when young: lamellae adnate, becoming sinuate with age, broad, crowded, white to yellowish: spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-7 X 5-6 /z: stipe subequal, cylindric, whitish or yellowish, densely pruinose, floccose at the base, solid, 2-3 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type collected on decayed wood in City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 6, 1908, F. S. Earle 68 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
