Comprehensive Description
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Gymnopilus alienus (Peck) Murrill
Flammula aliena Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 65. 1899.
Pileus thin, flexible, broadly convex, umbilicate, gregarious, 3-5 cm. broad; surface dry, glabrous, grayish or pale-grayish-brown, margin slightly striate when old; context white, fibrous; lamellae thin, subdistant, arcuate, decurrent, ochraceous-brown ; spores ferruginousbrown, globose, 5 m in diameter; stipe firm, fibrous-striate, solid, slightly tapering upward, concolorous, covered at the base with a dense white tomentum, 5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick.
Type locality: Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania. Habitat: On partly buried anthracite coal. 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 alienus: Brief Summary
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Gymnopilus alienus 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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