Marasmius heinemannianus, a new edible species from Benin, West Africa

Authors
Citation
V. Antonin, Marasmius heinemannianus, a new edible species from Benin, West Africa, BELG J BOT, 131(2), 1998, pp. 127-132
Citations number
17
Language
FRANCESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
BELGIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
ISSN journal
0778-4031 → ACNP
Volume
131
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
127 - 132
Database
ISI
SICI code
0778-4031(1998)131:2<127:MHANES>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Marasmius heinemannianus Antonin is described as a new species from the Ata cora province in the north-west Benin, West Africa. It belongs to the sect, Globulares, and is characterized in having rather large, fleshy carpophore s of the habitus of M. oreades, brightly orange-brown, reddish-brown to yel low-orange pileus, yellowish white spore print, by the presence of cheilocy stidia, pleurocystidia, as well as caulocystidia, rather large spores, and it grows on open grassy places. Moreover, the presence of the thick-walled dextrinoid 'resting' spores and sclerobasidia is rather unique in the genus Marasmius. It represents an edible species known under the name 'bawafobi' to local people.