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Synonyms

Lentinus delicatus

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: 82-Marasmius delicatus: a. spores; b. cheilocystidia; c. cuticle.
 

Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 0.5-1.75 cm diam., white, floccose, plano-convex, thin. Gills adnate, white moderately crowded, margins serrulate. Stipe 1-3 cm x 1 mm, white, floccose. Spores 9-10 x 3-3.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 11). Hymenophoral trama of thin-walled hyphae with clamp connections, up to 10 µm diam., very few thick-walled hyphae seen. Cuticle of loosely woven thin-walled hyphae about 10 µm diam., with clamp connections.
Habitat: In dense groups growing from a thick white mycelial mat on a fallen rotting log, Leith Saddle, Dunedin, 23.5.1953, Stevenson (type).
Notes: Further collections are needed to confirm the identification of other Lentinus spp. listed by Massee (1898).

Article: Horak, E. (1971). A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: Lentinus delicatus Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 6 = Marasmius delicatus (Stevenson) comb. nov. (Basionym: L. delicatus Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 32, 1964)
Cuticle of hymeniform cells, walls smooth, not broom-like, clamp connections present. Spores 8-10 X 3-3.5 µ, comma-like to fusoid, hyaline, smooth, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid. Cheilo- and caulocystidia present.