Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus familia (Peck) Murrill
Agaricus familia Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23: 79. 1872. CoUybia familia Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 241. 1887.
Pileus thin, rather fragile, convex or hemispheric, densely cespitose, 12-24 mm. broad; surface glabrous, somewhat hygrophanous, whitish, yellowishgray, or brownish, sometimes darker or brown on the disk: lamellae narrow, close, rounded at the inner extremity and almost free, white: spores globose, 4^5 fi: stipe slender, glabrous, minutely pruinose-pubescent under a lens, hollow, white or whitish, commonly with a white, mycelioid villosity at the base, 5-10 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick.
Type locawty: North Elba, New York.
Habitat: On much decayed wood and prostrate trunks of hemlock trees in woods.
Distribution: New York.
- 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
