Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eccilia nigricans Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 201. 1895
Pileus thin, convex, umbilicate or centrally depressed, 1.5-3.5 cm. broad; surface subzonate, impolished, finely tomentose, grayish-black ; context with the odor and taste of butternuts; lamellae broad, distant, deciurent, light-drab or brownish, becoming tinged with fleshcolor; spores angular, uninucleate, 10 ju long and nearly as broad; stipe short, hollow, grayishblack, usually with abundant white mycelium, about 2.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick.
Type locai^ity: Pasadena, California. Habitat: On grassy ground. Distribution: Southern California.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
