Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Agaricales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Marasmius equicrinis
 
   
   
 Author:

Marasmius equicrinis Muell., Grevillea 8:153. 1880.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 0.15-0.6 cm, convex, pale brown to pale orange colored, glabrous, margin striate. Gills free, distant, white, smooth. Stipe central, 0.3-3 × 0.02 cm, hollow, black, globrous, coriaceous, with long black rhizomorph. Spores fusiform, hyaline, smooth, I-, 12-17 × 4-5 μm. Epidermial cells irregularly branched. Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Chushan, on living tree, 20 Apr. 2001, CWN 04886 (TNM F0014509).

 
 
 
 Habitat: On dead leaves and twigs in tea orchard.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, India, and Ceylon.

 
 
 
 References:

Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: The hair-like rhizomorphs of this species strangle on tea plant, and cause tea-hair disease in tea orchard.