Marasmius elegans

Marasmius elegans, commonly known as the velvet parachute, is a species of fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. It has a reddish-brown cap, and a whitish stipe with white hairs at the base. It can be found in eucalypt forests in Australia.[1]

Marasmius elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Marasmiaceae
Genus:
Marasmius
Species:
M. elegans
Binomial name
Marasmius elegans
(Cleland) Grgur. (1997)
Synonyms
  • Collybia elegans Cleland (1933)
Marasmius elegans
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Mycological characteristics
gills on hymenium
cap is convex
hymenium is adnate
stipe is bare
spore print is white
ecology is saprotrophic
edibility: unknown

Taxonomy

The species was originally described as Collybia elegans by the Australian mycologist John Burton Cleland in 1933.[2] Cheryl Grgurinovic transferred it to Marasmius in a 1997 publication.[3]

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See also

References
  1. Bougher NL, Syme K. (1998). Fungi of southern Australia. University of Western Australia Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-875560-80-6. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  2. Cleland JB. (1933). "Australian fungi: notes and descriptions. - No. 9". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 57: 187–94.
  3. Grgurinovic C. (1997). Larger Fungi of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia: The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium. p. 250. ISBN 0-7308-0737-1.


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