Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus alcalinolens (Peck) Murrill
Collybia alcalinolens Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. V: 6. 1887.
Pileus thin, subconic, convex, or nearly plane, gregarious, 1.5-3.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous or slightly silky-fib rillose, hygrophanous, dark-brown and sometimes striatulate on the margin when moist, grayish-brown or cinereous when dry, shining : context white, the odor strong, alkaline; lamellae broad, subdistant, deeply emarginate or adnexed, with a slight deciurrent tooth, somewhat ventricose, whitish: spores broadly ellipsoid, 7.5-8.7 X 5-6 ju: stipe shining, glabrous, slightly pruinose at the apex, whitish, hollow, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick.
Type i<ocai.ity: Sandlake, New York.
Habitat: In thin woods and bushy or grassy places.
Distribution: New York and New England.
- 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
