Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius subnudus (Ellis) Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus
51: 287. 1898.
Marasmius peronatus subnudus EUis, N. Am. Fungi 909. 1883.
Pileus subfleshy, thin, tough, flexuous, broadly convex to plane, gregarious or subcespitose,
2-4 cm. broad; surface brownish-red, dingy-bay, or russet, smooth, margin even, smooth or
substriate: context thin, tough, white, the taste unpleasant, bitter; lamellae pallid or yellowish,
becoming darker in dried plants, narrow, subdistant, slightly adnexed or free, becoming
remote in old, dried plants: spores 8-10 X 4.5 fx stipe reddish-brown to nearly black, covered
with a dense, white tomentum or nearly naked at the apex, slender, firm, equal, solid or stuffed,
4-8 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type i^ocaI/ITy: New Jersey.
Habitat; On the ground among leaves, twigs, etc., in woods.
- 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
