Marasmius olidus Gilliam Cap 0.3-2cm across, cushion-shaped or convex becoming flatter and often umbilicate, then flat to concave with a wavy margin; light brownish to yellowish brown tinged with pink; dry, dull, finely velvety, minutely wrinkled on the disc. Gills adnate, adnexed, or subdecurrent, distant, moderately numerous; light yellowish brown. Stem 12-30 x l-2mm, tapering slightly to the base, straight or curved, hollow; white at the top, pale yellowish or light yellow-brown in the middle, grayish brown tinged pink or blackish brown below; dry, dull, with a bloom above and hairy below, with white mycelium on the basal disc. Flesh thin, firm; yellowish white. Odor pungent, of garlic. Taste like onion or garlic. Spores narrowly club-shaped and often curved, 10.2-16.5 x 2.8-3.8µ. Deposit white. Habitat in deciduous woods. Found in Michigan and New Jersey. Season August-September. Edibility not known. |