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Marasmius undatus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Saiten-Schwindling
Marasmius undatus Mushroom
Ref No: 8041
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on plant material/manure

Marasmius undatus (Berk.) Fr. syn. M. chordalis Fr. Saiten-Schwindling. Cap 1–2cm across, convex, dirty white to umber with a white bloom, becoming rust spotted with age. Stem 50–100 x 1–2mm, white at apex, reddish-brown towards the finely hairy base, entirely covered in a fine white velvet. Flesh white in cap, brownish in stem. Gills white to pale yellowish becoming rust spotted. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia thin-walled, fusiform. Spore print white. Spores almond-shaped, 8–11 x 6–7um. Cuticular cells smooth and subglobose. Habitat on rhizomes and dead stems of bracken. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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