11/Oct/2026, 2:49 PM
Kloostrimets, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban city mixed forest (pine-mapple), on decaying Acer platanoides leaf petiole
59°27'57.9"N 24°50'41.9"E
🌡️ 11°C ☁️ Overcast 💨 Wind 130° SE->NW, 7 km/h
Original Instagram postMarasmius epiphyllus
Leaf Parachute
- Scientific identification
- Marasmius epiphyllus (Pers.) Fr.
- Family
- Marasmiaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Marasmius
Names across languages
- English: Leaf Parachute
- German: Aderblättriger Schwindling
- Finnish: Ruotinahikas
- Estonian: Lehenööbik
- Russian: Негниючник листовой
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-10-11.
Hymenium
Gills very distant, few and narrow, often reduced to irregular vein-like folds, sometimes forked or interconnected; white to pale cream
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later flattened or shallowly depressed; extremely thin, dry, smooth to finely pruinose, becoming radially wrinkled; white to ivory; margin slightly wavy
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to shortly decurrent, sometimes forming a partial collar
Stipe
Extremely slender, thread-like, tough and wiry; whitish near apex, dark reddish-brown toward base; finely pruinose to minutely hairy; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Description
Saprobic on decaying hardwood leaves, petioles; deciduous and mixed forests, usually scattered to gregariously; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Inedible; extremely small and insubstantial
Fruit body
Fruit body tiny; stipe ~0.5–3 cm long and ~0.1–0.5 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–10 mm
Flesh
Whitish to pale cream, membranous, extremely thin and pliant; unchanging when cut; drying out and reviving with moisture
Microscopy
Spores elongated-ellipsoid to lacrymoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~8.5–12.5 × 3–5 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; cheilocystidia fusiform to lageniform, often with elongated necks; pleurocystidia scattered; pileipellis hymeniform; clamp connections present
Overview
Tiny white leaf parachute with reduced vein-like gills and a hair-thin brown stipe
1838). Epicr. Syst. Mycol. (Upsaliae): 386 (’1836-1838′).
Field encounters
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