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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Marasmiellus violaceogriseus. Marasmiellus violaceogriseus

Synonyms

Resupinatus violaceogriseus

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: upper 'cheilocystidia' near gill edge face-on. Lower coralloid cheilocystidia. Spores
Owner: J.A. Cooper

Caption: cap thick-walled glassy, coralloid hairs and gelatinous coralloid brown cap hyphae.
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Caption: 345-Marasmiellus violaceo-griseus: a. spores; b. cheilocystidia; c. cuticle.

Caption: fruitbody
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Caption: scale=5mm.
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Caption: hypha with ramealis structure and thick-walled hairs.
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Caption: scale=5mm
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Caption: scales=1cm
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Caption: scale=5mm
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Caption: scale=5mm
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Caption: cheilocystidia, basidia and spores
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Caption: cap surface
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Caption: ZT67-185
Owner: E. Horak: © Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand

Caption: FUNNZ2007/0686
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Owner: J.A. Cooper

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Caption: Fig. 46

Caption: Type specimen, Kew
Owner: B.P. Segedin

Owner: B.P. Segedin
 

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).
Description: Resupinatus violaceo-griseus Stevenson (29D) Fig. 28 = Marasmiellus violaceo-griseus (Stevenson) comb. nov. (Basionym: R. violaceo-griseus Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 22, 1964)
Spores elliptical to subcylindrical, hyaline, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, smooth, 5-6.5 X 2.5-3 µ. Cheilocystidia broom-like. Cuticle of heavily diverticulate cells, clamp connections present.

Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus up to 2-5 cm diam., young specimens violet at margin, otherwise entirely violaceous grey, bell-shaped to broadly cup-shaped with inrolled margin, fibrillose at first, becoming pruinose with scattered fibrils; flesh greyish, tough gelatinous; sessile and pendulous attached at centre of upper surface. Gills radiating from point of attachment, moderately crowded, rather shallow and thick, violaceous grey. Spores 6-7 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline (Fig. 1/46) P. 10). Hymenophoral trama of very loosely woven subregular hyphae with clamp connections. Cuticle of loosely woven branching hyphae, up to 5 µm diam., with greyish walls 1 µm thick. Spores smoot.
Habitat: On fallen Nothofagus menziesii, Nelson, 6.7.1949, A. Crawford in Stevenson (type).