Marasmiellus candidus 1
Marasmiellus candidus is a small, elegant, world-wide wood-rotting fungus found in clusters on rotting twigs, branches and standing dead trees in moist forest. (From Latin candidus = clear, white, shining.) Cap to 20 mm, at first broadly funnel-shaped, dry, white, somewhat translucent, becoming buff to pinkish with age. Gills attached adnate to subdecurrent, distant, with shallow interconnecting veins, white to buff, pinkish with age. Stem central, often eccentric, smooth, slender (to 20x3 mm), curving upwards, tapering to base, usually two-toned - white near apex, shading to grey or black near base. Mt Drummer Rainforest Walk, Cann River, 2010.
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