Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius subcyathiformis Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather thin, convex to depressed, solitary to subcespitose, 1-1.7 cm. broad; surface pruinose to glabrous, not striate when moist, brownish with a violet tint, margin concolorous, strongly inflexed on drying: lamellae pallid, adnate, of medium distance, not interveined, inserted, narrow, some of them forking: stipe slender, equal, densely pruinose or finely tomentose, rarely becoming subglabrous near the middle and appearing brownish, usually twisted when dry, 2-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick.
Type collected on fallen dead sticks in an orchard at Colima, Mexico, January 3-4, 1910, T^. ^. &■ Edna L. Murrill 615 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Mexico.
- 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
