Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius hondurensis Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex to subexpanded, umbonate, gregarious, 0.5-1 cm. broad; surface white, slightly darker at the center, striate, glabrous except on the umbo, which is minutely hispid when young, margm thin, plicate and deflexed on drying: lamellae distant, broad, once or twice inserted, not interveined, rather firm and regular, adnate, white : spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, granular, 5-7X3-4ju: stipe pallid at the apex, black below, finely pubescent, slender, equal, inserted, 2 cm. long, 0.5 mm. thick.
Type collected on dead sticks in British Honduras, 1906, Morton E. Peck (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
