Comprehensive Description
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Gymnopilus californicus (Earle) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 253
1912.
Flammula californica Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 342. 1902.
Pileus expanded, subumbonate, gregarious or cespitose, 4r-7 cm. broad; surface glabrous, subhygrophanous, pale-ochraceous-brown, often darker on the umbo, margin entire; context cream-colored, unchanging, the taste and smell mild; lamellae subsinuate-decurrent, heterophyllous, crowded, subventricose, pale-ochraceous to f usco-f erruginous ; spores ferruginous, ellipsoid, 6-7 X 4 m; stipe subequal, slightly enlarged at the apex and base, glabrous above, brown-fibrillose below, pale-brown, yellowishwhite at the apex, solid, white-mycelioid at the base, 5-6 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Stanford University, California. Habitat: Under trees, probably from buried rotten wood. Distribution: Vicinity of Stanford University, California.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Gymnopilus californicus: Brief Summary
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Gymnopilus californicus is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae.
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