BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

MARASMIACEAE
(a family of toadstools)

Marasmius
(a genus of parachute toadstools)

Marasmius epiphyllus
(Leaf Parachute)

Marasmius epiphyllus
is also a member of:

Macromycetes
(via Agaricales)

Lower Plants
(via Fungi ss.)

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Marasmius epiphyllus (Pers.) Fr., 1838 (Leaf Parachute)

Date:	21 October 2002
OS grid ref:	SP40
Lat/Lon:	51° 40' N, 1° 20' W
Location:	Vice County: Berks, VC22, England
Voucher:	21/10/2002[F] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)
Stage or state:	Fruitbody
Identification Notes:	Cap: 4mm, pale cream, wrinkled. Gills: reduced, anastomosing, pale cream. Cap cuticle: pallisade of smooth clavate cells with the occasional utriform to lageniform pileocystidium. Hyphae: abundantly clamped. Basidia: 4-spored. Spores: ≤10.5/4µm, cylindric. Cheilocystidia: narrowly lageniform.

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