Marasmiellus hapuuarum

Marasmiellus hapuuarum is a species of agaric fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. Formally described in 2011, it is known only from Hawaiian montane wet forests where it grows on aging hāpuʻu plants. The fungus produces small pinkish-buff fruit bodies up to 0.6 cm (0.24 in) in diameter, with distantly spaced narrow gills.

Marasmiellus hapuuarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Genus: Marasmiellus
Species:
M. hapuuarum
Binomial name
Marasmiellus hapuuarum
Desjardin & Hemmes (2011)
Known only from Hawaii

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by mycologists Dennis Desjardin and Don Hemmes in 2011 in Mycologia. It had previously appear in the literature under the provisional name Marasmiellus hapuuae in their 2002 book Mushrooms of Hawaii.[1] The holotype material was collected by Desjardin in January, 1996 in the Kamakou Forest Preserve on Molokaʻi island. The specific epithet hapuuarum refers to the name of the hāpuʻu tree fern upon which the fungus grows.[2]

Description

The cap is initially convex before flattening in age, reaching diameters of 0.2–0.6 cm (0.08–0.24 in). The cap surface is dry, dull, grooved to wrinkled/grooved, and has a felt- to suede-like texture. The color ranges from buff to pale orange white or pinkish buff, although the color can fade to nearly white in maturity. The flesh in thin—less than 1 mm—and buff-colored. The gills are distantly spaced, with 1 or 2 series of lamellulae interspersed between 4 and 8 gills. The stem is initially centrally placed, but as it ages becomes eccentric to almost laterally attached. It is cylindrical, more or less equal in width through its length, and pruinose (with a fine whitish powder on its surface), measuring 1–2 mm long by 0.1–0.2 mm thick. The base of the stem has a small disk of cream-colored mycelium. Fruit bodies have no distinctive taste or odor.[2]

The spore print is white.[1] The thin-walled spores are ellipsoid with a prominent hilum, smooth, hyaline (translucent), and measure 8–10 by 4.2–4.8 μm. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are club-shaped, hyaline, clamped, and are attached to anywhere from one to four spores; they measure 20–24 by 7–8 μm.[2]

Habitat and distribution

Marasmiellus hapuuarum is endemic to Hawaii, on the islands of Hawaiʻi, Maui, and Molokaʻi.[1] It grows scattered or in groups on aging rachises (the main shaft of a fern frond) and pinnae (leaflets) of the tropical tree fern species Cibotium, which are endemic to montane wet forests.[2]

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References
  1. Hemmes DE, Desjardin D. (2002). Mushrooms of Hawai'i: An Identification Guide. Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. p. 151. ISBN 1580083390.
  2. Desjardin DE, Hemmes DE. (2011). "Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands 9. Five new white-spored species from native montane wet forests". Mycologia. 103 (6): 1441–50. doi:10.3852/11-114. PMID 21700634.
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