Gymnopilus praecox (Peck) Murrill 1917

Gymnopilus praecox (Peck) Murrill
Flammula praecox Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 36: 334. 1909.
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming nearly plane, gregarious or cespitose, about 3 cm. broad; surface glabrous, moist or hygrophanous, brown or reddish-brown, paler when old and dry, sometimes with a dullgreenish tint, margin at first involute; context pallid; lamellae rather crowded, adnate or sometimes slightly rounded behind, pale-ochraceous, becoming brownishochraceous, whitish and minutely crenulate or eroded on the edges; spores subochraceous, ellipsoid, 7-8 X 4r-5 p* stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, becoming hollow with age, silky-fibrillose, slightly floccose or furfuraceous at the apex when young from the pure-white, slight, evanescent veil, pallid, with a soft white tomentum at the base, 2-4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick.
Type locality: Rockville, Indiana.
Habitat: On decaying wood, bark, or branches of deciduous trees, commonly basswood, Tilia americana, or even on dead herbaceous stems.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Gymnopilus praecox is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. It was given its current name by American mycologist Murrill in 1917.

Gymnopilus praecox là một loài nấm thuộc họ Cortinariaceae. Nó được nhà nghiên cứu về nấm người Mỹ Murrill đặt tên vào năm 1917.