Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eccilia housei Murrill, sp, nov
Leptonia euchlora House, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 188: 33. 1917. Not L. euchlora Qu^l. 1872.
Pileus submembranous. campanulate, becoming deeply depressed at the center, cespitose, about 2 cm. broad; surface blackish with a fumosous tint, radiately furrowed and streaked with paler tints, minutely tawny-fibrillose and roughened but scarcely squamulose, margin somewhat irregular; context very thin, pallid; lamellae narrow, decurrent, rather distant, pallid or slightly yellowish when young, soon becoming salmon-colored; spores ellipsoid, angular, obliquely apiculate, rose-colored, 9-11 X 6-7 /i; stipe slender, hollow, grassgreen, slightly fibrillose, 2-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type collected in damp clay soil in deciduous thickets at Green Lake near Elirkville, Onondaga County, New York, June 6, 1914, H. D, House 14.16 (herb. N. Y. State Mu^.). Distribution: Northern New York.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
