Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus exsculptus (Fries) Murrill
Agaricus exsculptus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 1: 93. 1838.
^Agaricus (Collybia) luteo-olivaceus Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 4: 286. 1859.
Agaricus (Collybia) coloreus Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1: 46. 1873.
Collybia exsculpta P. Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 156. 1879.
Agaricus (Tricholoma) rubes centifolius Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 39: 38. 1887.
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse or subumbilicate, scattered or subcespitose, 1.2-3.5 cm. broad; surface subglabrous, hygrophanous, yellow or yellow tinged with red or brown becoming smoky-flavid, margin usually projecting: lamellae crowded, narrow, emarginate, adnexed, yellow or yellowish, changing to brownish-red in drying: spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 4r-5 fx: stipe equal, hollow, glabrous, sometimes slightly fibrillose or pruinose at the apex, concolorous, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On decaying wood, especially of hemlock and pine.
Distribution: Maine to Washington and south to North Carolina and Ohio; also in Europe.
- 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
