Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius praetortipes Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex, umbilicate, solitary, 5-10 mm. broad; surface white, pruinose-fibrillose, margin irregularly sulcate: lamellae adnate-decurrent, few, forking and interveined, anastomosing, broad, thia, white: stipe filiform, inserted, densely pruinosevelvety, grayish-black, much twisted on drying, 2-3 cm. long, 1 mm. thick.
Type collected on dead twigs at Hope Gardens, Jamaica, November 16, 1902, F. S. Earle 503 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- 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
