Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus nigrita (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill
Agaricus {Collybia) nigrita Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 285. 1868.
CoUybia nigrita Sacc. Syll. Fung. S: 225. 1887.
Collybia irrorata Pat. in Duss, Enum. Champ. Guad. 49. 1903.
Pileus hemispheric with a slight umbo, very concave below, gregarious or cespitose, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, 7 mm. high; surface pulverulent to glabrous, rugose at times, hygrophanous, grayish-white to fuliginous, blackening on drying, margin entire, concolorous, incurved when young: lamellae adnate, narrow, crowded, dull-grayishwhite, blackening on drying: spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 X 4.5-5.5 /z: stipe cylindric, equal, fibrillose, concolorous, 4r~5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick.
Type locaIvITy: Cuba.
Habitat: On dead wood.
Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica (to 900 m.), Grenada, Guadeloupe, and eastern Mexico.
- 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
