Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Omphalopsis praedecurrens Murrill
Mycena praedecurrens Murrill, Mycologia 4: 165. 1912.
Pileus conic to subturbinate when young, then umbonate, and at length nearly plane, densely gregarious to subcespitose, reaching 1.5 cm. broad and nearly 1 cm. high; surface glabrous, very slightly viscid when wet, avellaneous, with darker avellaneous umbo; margin straight, appressed, usually striate, often yellowishwhite : lamellae long decurrent, distant, nearly plane, inserted, entire, white with an ashy tint, acute at each end: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 5X3-3.5 /t: stipe enlarged at the apex, subglabrous, gelatinous-white, avellaneous at the base, slightly viscid when wet, stuffed, about 4 cm. long and 2 mm. thick.
Type locaIvITy: The Bronx, New York City.
Habitat: On a mossy bank filled with slender roots in moist, deciduous woods.
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
