Click for help
Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851

Scientific name record
Names_Fungi record source
This is the current name
This record has descriptions

Click to collapse Details Info

Marasmius caperatus Berk., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 3 44 (1851)
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Recorded in error
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Berk.
Berk.
Berkeley, M.J. 1851: Decades of fungi. Decades XXXII., XXXIII. Sikkim-Himalayan fungi collected by Dr. Hooker. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Gardens Miscellany 3: 39-49.
1851
44
ICN
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
species
Marasmius caperatus

Click to collapse Classification Info

Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Marasmiaceae
Marasmius
caperatus

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

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

Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851

Entirely snow-white; pileus membranaceous, wrinkled and corrugated, smooth, 2-3 cm. across; gills distant, adnate, rather broad, connected by prominent ribs ; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 µ ; stem up to 1 cm. long, slender, furfuraceous.
Wairarapa, Northern Island, New Zealand. Himalayas.
On dead wood.
Distinguished by the membranaceous substance, pure-white colour, and the prominent ribs on the inside of the pileus connecting the gills. Tough. Type specimen examined.
Stevenson, G. 1964: The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.

Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851

The type of this species in the Kew Herbarium is material from the Himalaya. It is not Marasmius but appears to belong to the Laschia complex. No New Zealand material remains.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
Marasmius caperatus Berk. (1851)
Berkeley, M.J. (1851)
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
Marasmius caperatus Berk. (1851)
Massee, G.E. (1899)
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
Marasmius caperatus Berk. (1851)
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
Marasmius caperatus Berk. (1851)
Stevenson, G. (1964)

Click to collapse Metadata Info

1cb1cff5-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
15 November 1993
24 July 2001
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top