Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius troyanus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus slightly eccentric from its position on a standing trunk, depressed, gregarious to cespitose, reaching 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface nearly white, smooth, pulverulent to glabrous, margin thin, striate, concolorous: lamellae very broad and irregular, not crowded, inserted, not interveined, white, adnate or slightly sinuate; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, granular, 8-10X5-7 ju: stipe curved, short and rather stout, enlarged above, smooth, glabrous or minutely pruinose, skin-colored, hollow, reaching 1 cm. long and 2 mm. thick.
Type collected on a dead standing palm trunk in an open field in Troy and Tyre, Cockpit Country, Jamaica, W. A. Murrill b' W. Harris 872 (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
