Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus strictipes (Peck) Murrill
Collybia strictipes Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41 : 62, 1888.
Pileus thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, cespitose, 2.5-6 cm. broad; surface glabrous, sometimes slightly rugose on the disk, moist but scarcely hygrophanous, whitish or paleyellow, paler when dry, often more deeply colored on the disk: lamellae thin, close, adnexed or almost free, white: spores ovoid or subelUpsoid, pointed or subacuminate at one end, 6-7.5 X 4 M' stipe glabrous, slightly mealy or pruinose at the apex, white, often with a dense, white, mycelioid tomentum at the base, equal, straight, hollow, 3-6 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick.
Type locality: Catskill Mountains, New York.
Habitat: Among leaves or on decayed wood in woods.
Distribution: New England to the District of Columbia and west to Ohio.
- 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
