Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Marasmius curreyi

Facts
Scientific Name: 
Marasmius curreyi
Cap Diameter (mm): 
4-8mm
Stem Height (mm): 
15-30mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
<1mm
Information
Description: 

This tiny fungus is recognized by a orange-brown, pinkish-brown to buff, sulcate-striate, often umbilicate cap, and bristle-like stipe.

Distribution: 

Rare, though because of it's small size, may be largely overlooked.

Habitat: 

Grassland, lawns

Cap: 

Convex, becoming plano-convex to plane in age, sulcate-striate, the disc depressed to umbilicate; margin at first incurved, then decurved, eventually level to raised, occasionally wavy; surface is finely tomentose, rust-brown, fading to orange, pinkish-tan or pale-tan, darkest at the centre and ribs; context membranous, cream-colored.

Gills: 

Gills are distant, attached to a collarium, not directly to the stem, cream-coloured and relatively broad, up to 2mm in width, sometimes intervenose.

Stem: 

Less than 1 mm thick, filiform, hollow, more or less equal, frequently bent to undulate; surface is glabrous and pallid at the apex, elsewhere is blackish-brown, the base is slightly swollen with short dark fibrils, partial veil absent.