Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius peckii Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus minute, hemispheric, not expanding, umbilicate, gregarious, reaching 2 mm. broad ; surface radiate-sulcate, finely rugose, glabrous, whitish or gray, blackish and papillate at the center, margin entire, concolorous: lamellae very broad and distant, about 8 in number, attached
to a collar, not interveined, pallid: stipe capillary, smooth, glabrous, shining, brown or blackish,
inserted, 2-3 cm. long.
Type collected on dead leaves in British Honduras, 1906, Morton E. Peck (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.) . Distribution: British Honduras and Porto Rico.
- 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
