Comprehensive Description
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Gymnopilus brunneodiscus (Peck) Murrill
Flammula brunneodisca Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 167: 42. 1913.
Pileus fleshy, thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, umbonate, cespitose, 2.5-6 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid, with a separable pellicle, slightly innately fibrillose, ochraceous-yellow, brown at the center; context white; lamellae thin, crowded, adnate with a decurrent tooth, pale-yellow, becoming rusty-brown; spores ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 m stipe slender, equal, solid, glabrous, pale-yellow without and within, paler at the apex, 2-3 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick.
Typ# locality: Waltham, Massachusetts.
Habitat: Probably in damp soil.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Gymnopilus brunneodiscus: Brief Summary
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Gymnopilus brunneodiscus is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. It was given its current name by American mycologist Murrill in 1917.
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