Marasmius (Basidiomycota) in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Johari Jalinas School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, 43650, UKM Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan. E-mail: johari_j@ukm.my

M. laticlavatus Photo by: Johari Jalinas MycoBank: MB511933 Pileus 15-19(-33) mm diam., convex to plano-convex or plano-infundibuliform with a wrinkled umbo, dull, glabrous, sulcate to plicate, disc brown, margin yellowish grey to greyish cream. Context greyish yellow, thin. Lamellae adnexed to adnate, distant (10-13) with 1-2 series of lamellulae, broad (2-6 mm), buff to cream or white, non-marginate, nonintervenose. Stipe 30-80 1-2 mm, central, cylindrical with a narrow subbulbous at base, hollow, glabrous, apex yellowish grey to buff, base brownish orange to reddish brown. Odor and taste not distinctive.

M. purpureostriatus Photo by: Johari Jalinas Marasmius purpureostriatus is distinguished by a relatively large, plicate and striped pileus with greyish violet disc and plicae and greyish yellow ridges, subdistant, broad lamellae, a purplish grey to reddish brown stipe, large clavate basidiospores with mean range of 21.3 28.2 4.6-6.2 m, and an absence of pleurocystidia and caulocystidia.

M. pseudopurpureostriatus Photo by: Johari Jalinas

Pileus 14-38 mm broad, convex to depressed, dull, glabrous, plicate, disc and plicae dark purple (14F5) to dark magenta (13F7), striped with pale yellow (3A3) to greyish yellow (4B4) ridges. Context greyish yellow (4B4), thin. Lamellae adnexed, distant (9-11) with 0-1 series of lamellulae, narrow, greyish yellow (4B4), non-marginate, nonintervenose. Stipe 62-80 1.5-3 mm, central, cylindrical to tapering upwards, hollow, glabrous, non-insititious, apex greyish magenta (14E5), base brown (7E7). Odor and taste not distinctiv

Marasmius araneocephalus Photo by: Johari Jalinas

Marasmius araneocephalus has the following diagnostic features: a venosereticulate, greyish brown pileus with dark purplish brown disc; subdistant (10-12), strongly intervenose to reticulate lamellae; a light brown stipe covered with dark purple hairs; small basidiospores with mean 6.6 3.9 m; and scattered spider-like broom cells on the pileus surface with setulae 30-70 m long. Many micromorphological features of M. araneocephalus are similar to those of M.

Marasmius araneocephalus Photo by: Johari Jalinas

Marasmius araneocephalus Photo by: Johari Jalinas

Marasmius araneocephalus Photo by: Johari Jalinas

References: Wannathes, N., Desjardin, D.E., Hyde, K.D., Perry, B.A. and Lumyong, S. 2009. A monograph of Marasmius (Basidiomycota) from Northern Thailand based on morphological and molecular (ITS sequences) data. Fungal Diversity. Page: 209-306 Wannathes, N., Desjardin, D.E.and Lumyong, S. 2009. Four new species of Marasmius section Globulares from Northern Thailand. Fungal Diversity. Page:155-163 Yee-Shin Tan, Dennis E. Desjardin, S. Vikineswary and Noorlidah Abdullah. 2007. Basidiomycota: The genus Marasmius in Peninsular Malaysia. Malaysian Fungal Diversity. Page: 69-81.