How to Identify Marasmiaceae

Key Identification Features

• Its colour shifts from dark brown at the base to whitish at the top, with an ochraceous to reddish tone in the middle section, and it has a distinctive shiny, horny consistency.
• The gills attach to a collar, never to the stem, though in some specimens the collar is pressed so close to the stem that this feature is less obvious.
• The mushroom caps are initially convex, then become centrally depressed, and feature radial furrows; they measure 2–15 mm (0.

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