species fungus known japan species produces small mushrooms reddish brown caps millimetres diameter dark brown stems millimetres length species number distinctive microscopic features including long cystidia stem visible described species grows dead wood closest relative known mexico similar appearance named taxonomy described named article based specimens collected specific latin rope like reference shape character stem genus species traits suggest belongs section section closely related japanese common species description produces fruit bodies form mushrooms mushroom convex completely cap diameter unlike caps mushrooms change shape convex age cap fairly smooth small parallel furrows edge arranged colour differs slightly depending age mushroom younger specimens sport reddish brown caps paler brown older mushrooms cap surface dry dull free hair stem centrally cap measures long thick cylindrical slightly covered short white hairs base stem enters substrate visible majority stem brown lighter brown white gills attached stem depth individual gills spaced reaching stem gill thick edges short gills reach cap thin layer thick whitish flesh cap tough bent breaking flesh smell taste microscopic characteristics mushrooms leave white spore print individual measure thin cell walls smooth spores meaning stain come contact melzer reagent solution spores borne club shaped basidia measuring spores club shaped developed basidia edge gill sterile mass cystidia cheilocystidia club shaped cheilocystidia measure sport multiple cylindrical tips measuring cheilocystidia cell walls variable thickness pleurocystidia cystidia face gills cystidia stem measure cylindrical erect forming visible tip pointed rounded cell walls smooth thick meaning stain reddish brown come contact melzer reagent solution layer hyphae cap cylindrical hyphae thick thin walled hyphae covered brown flesh cap cylindrical hyphae wide thin cell walls hyphae run parallel weakly flesh gills basically flesh cap fact completely hyphae layer stem form cylindrical hyphae making run parallel measure width walls thick brown pigment flesh stem hyphae running stem cells wide smooth cell walls thick hyphae lack clamp connections similar species differs closest relative presence cheilocystidia lack clamp connections fact form instead club shaped cylindrical species known mexico known europe similar appearance cap covered hairs differs instance hyphae feature clamp connections species named morphological similarities species differentiated fact slightly larger narrower measuring significantly longer distribution ecology known tokyo japan mushrooms grow groups dead plant matter recorded japanese cedar wood leaf litter woodland bamboo leaf oak mushrooms encountered july
Marasmius funalis