Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Agaricales: Marasmiaceae: Moniliophthora perniciosa (Stahel) Aime & Phillips-Mora

Moniliophthora perniciosa

Synonyms: Crinipellis perniciosa, Marasmius perniciosus.

Extract from Wikipedia article: Moniliophthora perniciosa (previously Crinipellis perniciosa) is a fungus that causes "witches' broom disease" (WBD) of the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao L.). T. cacao a tropical tree with seeds that are processed into cocoa (=cacao) products. This pathogen is currently limited to South America, Panama and the Caribbean, and is perhaps one of the best-known cocoa diseases, thought to have co-evolved with cocoa in its centre of origin (first recorded in the Brazilian Amazon in 1785).

Dutch: Krulloten.

Photos of this mushroom from East and Central Texas

Marasmiaceae mushrooms (Crinipellis or may be Moniliophthora perniciosa) growing on a dry vine of trumpet creeper (Foxglove vine, Campsis radicans) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 4, 2019
Little Lake Creek Loop Trail, Montgomery, TX 77356, USA

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