Associations
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Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Mycena abramsii is saprobic on dead, decayed, fallen branch of Broadleaved trees
Remarks: season: spring, summer, autumn
A Key to Norwegian Mycenas: M. abramsii
provided by EOL authors
A nice, technical description of the Summer Bonnet (Mycena abramsii) with some lovely photos, as well.
Characteristic features of mycena abramsii (pictures and text)
provided by EOL authors
Guidance for identification (German text)
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Prunulus abramsii Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather large and firm, conic to convex, not expanding, scattered, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, moist, radiately striate, avellaneous, blackish-brown on the disk, margin paUid, somewhat creamy, appressed when young: context white, without characteristic odor or taste: lamellae adnate-sinuate, subdistant, about 15 in number, with short ones inserted, whitish: spores oblong-ellipsoid, sHghtly curved, smooth, hyaline, 1 1-12.5 X 5 ^u: stipe cylindric or enlarged at the base, smooth, glabrous, steel-gray, often whitish at the apex, 6-8 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick.
Type collected on the ground under oaks at Stanford University, California, November 27, 1902, L. R. Abrams ^ James McMurphy 69 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- 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
