Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eccilia mordax Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 113. 1902
Pileus convex, umbilicate, usually gregarious, 2-5 cm. broad; surface smooth, dull-reddishbrown or pale-chestnut-colored, hygrophanous, tough, rarely cracking radially, margin inroUed; context thin, dirtywhite, the taste at first not marked, but after 15 or 20 minutes leaving a burning sensation in the throat which often lasts 24 hours; lamellae dirty-fleshcolored, adnate to slightly decurrent, not crowded; spores ovoid, pale-flesh-colored, 6-7 X 4^5 m; stipe concolorous, cartilaginous, tough, fistulose, smooth, often compressed, 5-7 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick.
Type locality: McGowan's woods, Ithaca, New York.
Habitat: On the ground.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
