Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopilus hispidus (Massee) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 24. 1913
Flammula hispida Massee, Jour. Bot. 30: 161. 1892.
Pileus fleshy, umbilicate or somewhat infundibuliform, becoming explanate, 2.5 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, hispid with erect, acute squamules, ochraceous-ful vous ; lamellae adnate, subdecurrent, crowded, broad, golden to fulvous-ferruginous, the edges paler and crenulate; spores ellipsoid, apiculate at the base, ferruginous, 7X5/i; stipe fibrillose, pallid, hollow, attenuate above, 2-2.5 cm. long.
Type locality: Chateau Belair, St. Vincent, West Indies. Habitat: On decayed trunks. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
