Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Marasmius subpruinosus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex, umbonate-depressed at the center, cespitose, reaching 7 cm. broad ; surface rugose-striate, isabelline, smooth and pale-latericeous on the disk, finely pruinose under a lens even in age, margin thin, splitting easily, contorted on drying: lamellae adnate, rather broad, crowded, scarcely interveined, isabelline: spoies globose, smooth, hyaline, 4-7 fj.: stipe equal, cylindric or compressed, griseous, finely and persistently tomentose, about 5 cm. long and 3-5 mm. thick.
Type collected on a dead log in woods in Troy and Tyre, Cockpit Country, Tamaica. Tanuarv 12-14, 1909, W. A. Murrill bW. Harris 947 (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
