Marasmius asiaticus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. Within the large genus Marasmius, it is classified in section Sicci. Known only from a single collection made in Mount Nuang Forest Reserve (Peninsular Malaysia), it was described as new to science in 2009 by Tan and Dennis Desjardin under the name Marasmius distantifolius.[1] This was later discovered to be an illegitimate homonym of a species named by William Alphonso Murrill in 1915,[2] now known as Marasmiellus distantifolius.[3] Armin Mešić and Zdenko Tkalčec proposed the new epithet asiaticus, referring to its distribution.[4] The original epithet, which combined the Latin distans ("distant") and -folius ("leaf"), alluded to the distantly-spaced gills.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Marasmiaceae |
| Genus: | Marasmius |
| Species: | M. asiaticus
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| Marasmius asiaticus Mešić & Tkalčec (2010)
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See also
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edit- ^ a b Tan YS, Desjardon DE, Perry BA, Vikineswary S, Noorlidah A (2009). "Marasmius sensu stricto in peninsular Malaysia" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 37: 9–100.
- ^ Murrill WA. (1915). "News, notes and reviews". Mycologia. 7 (3): 155–156. doi:10.1080/00275514.1915.12021706. JSTOR 3753184.
- ^ "Marasmius distantifolius (Murrill) Murrill". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
- ^ Mešic A, Tkalcec Z (2010). "New names in the genus Marasmius" (PDF). Mycotaxon. 113: 283–285. doi:10.5248/113.283.