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 Marasmius impudicus
BiostatusPresent in region - Origin uncertain
Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Smell strong and very unpleasant; pileus convex, then plane, the centre often depressed,
reddish-bay, pale when dry, 1.5-2.5 cm. across when expanded; flesh thin, soft and pliant,
membranaceous from the margin half-way up and coarsely striate; gills at first slightly
adnexed, but becoming free during the expansion of the pileus, connected by veins,
ventricose, at first crowded then distant, white with just a suspicion of pink; spores elliptical,
8 x 4-5 µ; stem 3-5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, equal, slightly wavy or flexuous, tough, rufous or
rufous-brown or sometimes purple-violet, naked, but entirely covered with delicate white
down when dry, base narrowed and rooting.
Habitat: On or about rotten trunks and stumps, especially pine.
Distribution: New Zealand. Australia, Europe.
Notes: Gregarious. Agreeing with Marasmius foetidus and M. perforans in the strong foetid smell.
The last two named, however, differ from the present in having the stem minutely but
distinctly velvety.
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: The systematic position of the fungi in this collection (COLENSO b 1008) is
unresolved. Macroscopically the carpophores resemble the type material from
Australia (Brisbane, F. M. Bailey, Nr. 26, in K; see also Pegler, 1965), but the tiny
(4-5 X 2-3 µ), neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, smooth spores clearly separate the
two taxa.
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