Marasmius Fr. 1836

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Name scientific

Marasmius Fr. 1836

Preferred name

Marasmius Fr. 1836

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Fr.

Original authors

Fr.

Publication place

Fries, E.M. 1836: Floram Scanicam. Palmblad, Sebell & C.

Year published

1836

Publication page

339

Nomenclatural status

conserved

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Marasmius Fr. 1836

Type taxon

Marasmius rotula (Scop.) Fr. 1838

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Marasmius

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Marasmiaceae

Genus

Marasmius

Subordinates

Synonyms

Associations

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Association source

has host

Myoporum laetum G.Forst.

Freeston, R.; Freeston, A. (2008)

has host

Nothofagus

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2000)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2004)

has host

Agathis australis (D.Don) Lindl.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Ammophila

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Angiopteris evecta (Forst.) Hoffm.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Arundo donax L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Beilschmiedia tarairi (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (10 records from [Not available].)

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cassia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cupressus macrocarpa Gordon

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea dealbata (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea medullaris (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyatheales

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (A.Rich.) de Laub.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (7 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dicksonia

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dicksonia squarrosa (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dracophyllum

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Elaeocarpus dentatus (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Vahl

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Feijoa

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Feijoa sellowiana (O.Berg.) O.Berg

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Griselinia littoralis Raoul

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Knightia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum

PDD (11 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum ericoides

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

PDD (5 records from [Not available].)

has host

Melicytus

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Metrosideros excelsa Gaertn.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (7 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus cliffortioides

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Olearia lyallii Hook.f.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Paspalum L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Phormium

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus radiata D.Don

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pittosporum

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pittosporum tenuifolium Gaertn.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Podocarpus dacrydioides

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Podocarpus totara D.Don

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudopanax

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudopanax arboreus (Murray) Philipson

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudopanax chathamicus Kirk

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudopanax crassifolius (A.Cunn.) K.Koch

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudotsuga

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus robur L.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Ripogonum scandens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Sequoia sempervirens (Lamb.) Endl.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Spinifex hirsutus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Triticum aestivum L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Triticum L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Vitex lucens Kirk

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Weinmannia racemosa L.f.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Hypocrea Fr. 1825

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Marasmius Fr. 1836

Notes

Spore print white. Small brown or whitish mushrooms characterised by having tough, leathery fruiting bodies, some species with long, very narrow, almost hair-like stalks. The stalks are often dark.

There are more than 25 species of Marasmius reported for New Zealand. In addition, there are several more species in Marasmius-like genera such as Micromphale (with a garlic odour), Marasmiellus (lacking a central stalk), and Gloiocephala (poorly defined, fold-like gills).

Most species are found on small twigs and sticks, and fallen, dead leaves. Several of the indigenous, leaf-inhabiting species are specialised to a single kind of plant, for example M. fishii on flax leaves, M. podocarpicola on totara, M. rhombisporus on pseudopanax, and M. rhopalostylidis on nikau. The introduced M. oreades is a soil-inhabiting species found in grassland.

Notes

Small, tough mushrooms on fallen wood, twigs and leaves. Distnguished from Marasmiellus by pileipellis structure (hymeniform palisade rather than a cutis or trichoderm). Micromphale has a garlic-like odour.

Thirty or more species have been reported from New Zealand, only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi. Taxonomically still poorly understood.

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Marasmius Fr. 1836

Description

Pileus regular, thin, tough and pliant; gills pliant, somewhat distant, variously attached or quite free, edge thin, entire, often connected by transverse bars or veins; stem central, slender, cartilaginous or hoary, minutely velvety or polished; spores white.

A very distinct genus, but distinguished more especially by biological characters. Differing from Collybia and Mycena, its nearest allies, by not deliquescing at maturity, but drying up, and again assuming the original form when moistened. Many species have a smell resembling garlic. On the ground, among dead leaves, some on branches, &c:

Stevenson, G. 1964: The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.

Marasmius Fr. 1836

Description

Tough to very tough fungi of a reviving consistency, especially in the stipe which is often dark coloured and string like; epicutis irregular of special elements which are non-amyloid to pseudo-amyloid; spores thin-walled usually non-amyloid, often of variable size within a single species.