Marasmiellus perforans    (Hoffm.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel. 

common name(s) : Stinking Parachute 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Marasmiaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Marasmiaceae/Collybieae  

synonyms: Marasmius perforans, Micromphale perforans 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Gymnopus perforans)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Marasmiellus perforans
photo gallery of  Marasmiellus perforans potential confusions with  Marasmiellus perforans toxicity of Marasmiellus perforans genus Marasmiellus  

The cap is white to cream. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is blackish brown to black, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; the odour is or rotten cabbage or foul water; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, adnate, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, with spruce, fir.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1 cm (between 0.5 and 1.7 cm)
  height of stem approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 1 mm (between 0.5 and 1.5 mm)

Distinctive features : very thin; striate margin; distant and interveined gills, on conifer needles; fetid odour of rotten cabbage

Marasmiellus perforans is rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Marasmiellus perforans in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Marasmiellus perforans in the forest of Rambouillet



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