Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eccilia californica Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex-umbilicate, not expanding, regular, thin, gregarious, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, glabrous, uniformly grayish-brown, margin entire, concolorous, inflexed; context grayish-brown, with nutty taste; lamellae decurrent, inserted, broad, crowded, white to salmon-colored, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores broadly ellipsoid, angular, uniguttulate, rose-colored, 8-9 X 7 ju; stipe short, equal or slightly enlarged above, solid, smooth, glabrous, grayish-brown, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick.
Type collected among grass in rich ground at Madera Creek, near Stanford University, California, December 21, 1902, James McMurphy 53 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). 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
