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

Marasmius oreades (Bolt.: Fr.) Fr., Anteckn. Sver. Ätl. Svamp.: 52. 1836.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 1.2-3.5 cm, convex, orchaceous to yellow brown, glabrous, margin striate. Gills adnate, distant of several length and forked, white, smooth. Stipe central, coriaceous, 6-7 × 0.1-0.2 cm, hollow, pale brown, with flat scales. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, I-, 7-10 × 4.5-5.5 μm. Hyphae with clamps.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung: National Museum of Natural Science, on grassland, 13 June 1997, CWN 02373 (TNM F0008396).

 
 
 
 Habitat: On meadows, grassland and roadsides.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

North hemisphere.

 
 
 
 References:

Imazeki, R. and Hongo, T. 1987; Breitenbach, J. and Kranzlin, E. 1991; Chang, T. T. et al. 2001.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible.