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Stevenson, G. 1964: The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
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Armillariella (P. Karst.) P. Karst. 1881
This genus which includes important tree-destroying fungi is a rather small group of fairly large fleshy fungi, with pileus squamulose or smooth, gills decurrent, stipe fibrous, annulate or non-annulate; the hyphae are without clamps; spores are non-amyloid.
Armillariella limonea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 8-13 cm diam., lemon yellow, sprinkled thickly at centre and more sparsely towards the margin with dark brown, tufted scales, dry, convex at first with strongly down-rolled margin, becoming almost plane with a waved edge; flesh firm, white. Gills sinuately decurrent, moderately crowded, creamy white becoming stained pinkish fawn. Stipe 10-15 x 1-1.5 cm, light brown above substantial floccose ring, shading to brown or olive green below, velutinate, sometimes with a few tufted scales, solid, tough, slightly bulbous at base. Spores 7-8 x 5-6.5 µm, non-amyloid, moderately thick-walled (Fig. 25); print white.
In dense groups round standing dead Nothofagus, Butterfly, Wellington, 22.5.1949. Stevenson (type); Nelson, 6.6.1955, E. Cannington; Eve's Valley, Nelson, 10.5.1957, Stevenson.
Pileus 8-13 cm diam., limoneo-luteus, medio dense, marginem versus sparsius squamis fusco-brunneis crinitis sparsus, siccus, primum convexus margine valde deflexo-revoluto, deinde fere planus margine undulato; carne firma alba. Lamellae sinuato-decurrentes, modice confertae, cremeo-albae deinde puniceo-fulvotinctae. Stipes 10-15 x 1-5 cm, supra annulum satis validum floccosum laete brunneus, inferne magis magisque brunneus vel olivaceus, velutinatus, interdum squamis paucis crinitis praeditus, solidus, tenax, basi leviter bulbosus. Sporae 7-8 x 5-6.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus modice crassis; in cumulo albae.
Armillariella mellea sensu G. Stev. 1964
This common tree-destroying fungus with very characteristic bootlace rhizomorphs is regularly seen in plantations. In Japan it is recognized as the mycorrhizal fungus of the saprophytic orchid Gastrodia R. Br., one species of which is fairly common throughout New Zealand.
Armillariella mellea sensu G. Stev. 1964
This common tree-destroying fungus with very characteristic bootlace rhizomorphs is regularly seen in plantations. In Japan it is recognized as the mycorrhizal fungus of the saprophytic orchid Gastrodia R. Br., one species of which is fairly common throughout New Zealand.
Armillariella novae-zelandiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-8 cm diam., olive-buff to olive-brown, sprinkled at centre with very small dull brown scales, convex at first with a strongly down-rolled margin, becoming plane to shallow concave, moist when fresh with a conspicuously striate margin, drying matt; flesh creamy white. Gills decurrent to a most sinuate, creamy white becoming dull fawn, moderately crowded with many short members. Stipe 4-7 x 0.4-0.8 cm, fawn above evanescent ring, brown to dark purplish brown below, smooth or striate, tough, solid, bases swollen and united. Spores 8-9 x 5.5-6.5µm, non-amyloid rather thick-walled (Fig. 24). Spore print white.
In dense groups round standing dead broad-leaved trees, or on their fallen timber, Wellington Botanic Garden, 2.6.1949, Stevenson, Eastbourne, Wellington, 4.6.1949, Stevenson (type); Butterfly, 2.6.1958, Stevenson; Otari, 22.6.1958, Stevenson, Kapiti, 22.6.1958, M. Davidson.
Pileus 3-8 cm diam., olivaceo-bubalinus usque olivaceo-brunneus, medio squamis minimis obscure brunneis sparsus, primum convexus margine valde deflexo-revoluto, deinde planus usque leviter concavus, statu vivo humidus margine conspicue striato, siccitate obscurus; came cremeo-alba. Lamellae decurrentes usque fere sinuatae, cremeo-albae deinde obscure fulvae, modice confertae, lamellis brevibus multis. Stipes 4-7 x 0.4-0.8 cm, supra annulum evanescentem fulvus, infra brunneus usque fusco-purpureo-brunneus, laevis vel striatus, tenax, solidus, basibus tumidis atque coalitis. Sporae 8-9 x 5.5-6.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus satis crassis; in cumulo albae.
Typus: Stevenson 629.
Baeospora clastotricha G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-3.5 cm. diam., ochraceous yellow, darker at centre, intensely velvety, plano-convex with down-rolled margin; flesh yellow. Gills adnate, creamy-white, thin, crowded. Stipe 3-7 x 0.2-0.4 cm., ochraceous yellow, paler and silky striate above, more or less clothed with cottony fibrils below, occasionally peronate, hollow, tough. Spores 5 x 3 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama and hyphae of tissues non-amyloid. Basidia with amyloid granulation. Cuticle of globe cells, 15-20 µm diam., with ochraceous yellow pigment, some becoming amyloid, covered by abundant hair-like chains fragmenting into cylindric cells, 3-4 µm broad and 4-8 µm long, some becoming amyloid, containing ochraceous yellow pigment (Fig. 34). Strong unpleasant smell.
On fallen wood or rooting' in litter in Nothofagus forest, Keith George Park, 15.6.1949 (Type); & 25-5-1952; Lowry Bay, 6.7.1949, Fringed Hill, Nelson, 3.6.1956; all Stevenson.
Pileus 1-3.5 cm diam., ochraceo-luteus (medio intensius), eximie velutinus, plano-convexus margine deorsum revoluto; caro lutea. Lamellae adnatae; cremeo-albae, tenues, confertae. Stipes 3-7 x 0.2-0.4 cm, ochraceo-luteus, superne pallidior sericeo-striatus, inferne fibrillis gossypinis plus minus obtectus, nonnunquam peronatus, cavus, tenax. Sporae 3.5 x 3 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis et hyphae texturae; pilei haud amyloidea. Basidia amyloideo-granulata. Cuticula e cellulis globiformibus 15-20 µm diam., cum pigmento ochraceo-luteo, nonnullis amyloideis et praeterea e catenis copiosis capilliformibus in cellulas cylindricas fragmentatis 3-4 µm latas 4-8 µm longas nonnulis amyloideas pigmentum ochraceo- luteum in sese tenentes sistens. Odor fortis, ingratus.
Although the peronate collections appeared different from the smooth-stemmed ones macroscopically, some were intermediate in this respect; all agreed in microscopic characters and thus are treated as one species.
Typus: Stevenson 653.
Baeospora Singer 1938
Collybioid fungi with a differentiated epicutis, non-amyloid tissues and small, smooth, amyloid spores.
Cantharellula alpina G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-10 mm diam., bright luteous, drying paler, hemispherical becoming plane, matt; flesh luteous. Gills decurrent, luteous, triangular, thick, distant, with a few folds or ridges between, rarely forked. Stipe 1-2 cm x 1 mm, luteous, smooth or indistinctly striate, solid, moderately tough. Spores 8-9 x 4-5 µm amyloid (Fig. 34); basidia 30-35 x 5-8 µm Hymenophoral trama irregular, of loosely woven hyphae up to 5 µm diam.
In mountain grassland, Molesworth, 2.4.1949, H. H. Allan; Arthur's Pass, 4.6.1949, M. Hamilton in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3-10 mm diam., laete luteus, siccitate pallidius, hemisphaericus, deinde planus, haud nitidus; came lutea. Lamellae decurrentes, luteae, triangulares, crassae, distantes, plicis vel costis paucis interspersis, raro furcatae. Stipes 1-2 cm x 1 mm luteus, laevis vel indistincte striatus, solidus, modice tenax. Sporae 8-9 x 4-5 µm amyloideae; basidia 30-35 x 5-8 µm. Trama hymenophoralis irregularis, ex hyphis laxe intertextis usque 5 µm diam. sistens.
Typus: M. Hamilton in Stevenson 630.
Cantharellula fistulosa G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2.5-3.5 µm diam., ochraceous buff overlain with sparse darker fibrils, moist at first drying subfibrillose, infundibuliform, opening at centre to stem cavity, margin down-turned, waved and becoming split; flesh thin, ochraceous. Gills decurrent, moderately distant, rather shallow, sometimes forking, ochraceous buff with a whitish bloom. Stipe 4-6.5 cm x 2-3 mm, ochraceous, smooth, completely hollow, with a bulbous base. Spores 6 x 4µm amyloid, rather thin-walled, smooth (Fig. 1/37) P. 10); basidia 30 x 5µm. Hymenophoral trama subregular with hyphae up to 5 µm diam.
On fallen rotting wood, Korokoro, 1.5.1948, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2.5-3.5 µm diam., ochraceo-bubalinus, fibrillis fuscioribus sparsis obductus, primum humidus, siccitate subfibrillosus, infundibuliformis, medio foramine in stipitis cavitatem pertusus, margine deflexo undulato tandem fisso; came tenui ochracea. Lamellae decurrentes) modice distantes, haud altae, interdum furcatae, ochraceo-bubalinae, albido-pruinosae. Stipes 4-6.5 cm x 2-3 mm, ochraceus, laevis, omnino cavus, basi bulbosa. Sporae 6 x 4 µm amyloideae, parietibus modice tenuibus, laevibus; basidia 30 x 5 µm Trama hymenophoralis subregularis, hyphis usque 5 µm diam.
Typus: Stevenson 232.
Cantharellula foetida G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-4.5 µm diam., fuscous to greyish sepia, overlain with radiating loosely anastomosing darker fibrils, concave to infundibuliform with a waved margin, sometimes with a small central umbo, sometimes opening at centre to stem cavity; flesh thin, greyish. Gills decurrent, thick, shallow, some forking, greyish. Stipe 2-3 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscous to dark greyish sepia, smooth to cottony striate, rather tough, hollow, bulbous at base. Spores 7-8 x 5-6 µm, amyloid, smooth, moderately thin-walled (Fig. 33). Hymenophoral trama regular with hyphae up to 10 µm diam. Strong sour smell.
On fallen wood, Eastbourne, 4.6.1040, Stevenson (type); Tararuas, Levin, 18.6.1049, Stevenson.
Pileus 3-4.5 µm diam., fuscus usque griseo-sepiinus, fibrillis radiantibus laxe anastomosantibus obductus, concavus usque infundibuliformis, margine undulato, umbone parvo centrali interdum praeditus, interdum foramine in stipitis cavitatem pertusus; came tenui cinerascente. Lamellae decurrentes, crassae, haud altae, Interdum furcatae, cinerascentes. Stipes 2-3 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscus usque fusco-griseo-sepiinus, laevis usque gossypino-striatus, subtenax, cavus, basi bulbosus. Sporae 7-8 x 5-6 µm, amyloideae, laeves, parietibus modice tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis regularis, hyphis usque 10 µm diam. Odor gravis, acerbus.
Typus: Stevenson 623
Cantharellula Singer 1936
The species of this genus are clitocyboid fungi with thin fleshy pilei, often with appressed radial fibrillosity, decurrent gills which may be forked, and amyloid spores.
Clitocybe (Fr.) Staude 1857
The pileus in this genus is usually incurved at first, is often depressed or umbilicate, is of medium to small size, dry or hygrophanous, rarely viscid and usually dull coloured. The thin gills are characteristically decurrent to deeply decurrent, with a hymenophoral trama of regular to sub-regular hyphae. The spore-print is white (or occasionally pale coloured); the spores re smooth, non-amyloid, thin-walled; cystidia are normally absent. The epicutis consists of woven hyphae. Often the species have a characteristic smell.
Clitocybe nothofaginea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-4.5 cm diam., ochraceous, waxy, hemispherical, umbilicate to infundibuliform with an opening to stem cavity; flesh thin, pale ochraceous. Gills decurrent, creamy to pale ochraceous, thin, moderately crowded to moderately distant, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-3.5 cm x 2-5 mm, tapering to base, hollow, rather fragile to somewhat tough, creamy to ochraceous, silky striate to velutinate. Spores 5-6 x 3-3.5 µm, non-amyloid, oblong ovoid, thin-walled, smooth (Fig. 9). Sour smell.
Under Nothofagus and other trees, strongly attached by mycelium to litter, 29.4-1956 Stevenson (type); Nelson, 14.6.1956 & 20.6.1956, D. Read.
Pileus 2-4.5 cm diam., ochraceus, cereus hemisphaericus, umbilicatus usque infundibuliformis, apertura in caulis cavitatem pertusa; came tenui pallide ochracea. Lamellae decurrentes, cremeae usque pallide ochraceae, tenues, modice confertae usque modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 2-3.5 cm x 2-5 mm, basin versus attenuatus, cavus, subfragilis usque subtenax, cremeus usque ochraceus, sericeo-striatus usque velutinatus. Sporae 5-6 x 3-3.5 µm haud amyloideae, oblongo-ovoideae, parietibus tenuibus, laeves. Odor acidulus.
Typus: Stevenson 1061
Clitocybe paraditopa Cleland & Cheel 1919
Pileus 2.5-3.5 cm diam., greyish fawn to grey more or less plane, sometimes caespitose and deformed. Gills adnate to decurrent, pale grey, moderately crowded, moderately thick and rather shallow, occasionally forking. Stipe 1.5-2 x 0.5 cm, solid or hollow, flesh continuous with that of cap, grey fawn with whitish cottony striations. Spores 5-5.5 x 2-2.5 µm thin-walled (Fig. 8). Very fragrant.
In rough grass or on lawns, occasionally forming rings; fairly common in Wellington and Nelson during May and June.
The gill characters of this species approach those of Leucopaxillus but the spores are non-amyloid.
Clitocybe wellingtonensis G.M. Taylor & G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-2.6 cm diam., creamy, orange at centre, convex with a broad umbilicus, moist at first, drying smooth; flesh soft, white. Gills decurrent, moderately distant, creamy, margins slightly waved. Stipe 3 cm x 3-6 mm, thicker at base, creamy or with ochraceous tints; flesh soft, white. Spores 4-6 x 3-4 µm non-amyloid thin-walled, hyaline (Fig. 10); print white. Cuticle of closely woven hyphae.
Attached to litter in mixed broad-leaved forest, Belmont, Wellington, 20.6.1960, G. M. Taylor (type) & Waikanae, 6.8.1960, G. M. Taylor.
Pileus 2-2.6 cm diam., cremeus, medio aurantiacus, convexus, umbilico lato, primum madidus, siccitate laevis; came molli alba. Lamellae decurrentes, modice distantes, cremeae, marginibus leviter undulatis. Stipes 3 cm x 3-6 mm, basi crassior, cremeus interdum ochraceo-tinctus; came molli alba. Sporae 4-6 x 3-4 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, hyalinae; in cumulo albae. Cuticula ex hyphis dense intertextis efformata.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 4.  
Collybia (Fr.) Staude 1857
Species of this genus are of a somewhat tough texture, with convex to flat pilei, the margins of which are at first incurved; the epicutis consists of woven hyphae; gills are characteristically adnexed to free, sometimes sinuate to adnate; spores are rather small with thin, smooth, non-amyloid walls, and no other elements are amyloid; cystidia are absent. They are important fungi in the breakdown of raw litter.
Collybia bubalina G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-7 cm diam., pale buff, plane with a down curved margin, matt; flesh thin, whitish. Gills sinuate, buff, moderately distant. Stipe 4-6 x 0.5-1 cm buff, striate, hollow, tough, tapering slightly to somewhat swollen base. Spores 5.5 x 2.5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled, hyaline (Fig. 18). Cuticle of appressed hyphae, mainly of large diam., 5-10 µm. Hymenophoral trama sub-regular, of large diam. hyphae. Slight sour smell.
Among litter under Nothofagus, Spooner's Range, Nelson, 20.5.1956, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3-7 cm diam., pallide bubalinus, planus, margine deorsum in-curvato, haud lucens; carne tenui albida. Lamellae sinuatae, bubalinae, modice distantes. Stipes 4-6 x 0.5-1 cm, bubalinus, striatus, cavus, tenax, basin subtumidam versus leviter attenuatus. Sporae 5.5 x 2.5 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, hyalinae. Cuticula ex hyphis adpressis diametro plerumque magnis (5-10 µm) sistens. Trama hymenophoralis subregularis, ex hyphis plerumque diametro magnis sistens. Odor levis, acidulus.
Typus: Stevenson 1098.
Collybia incarnata G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-3.5 µm diam., pale incarnate, plane, striate at edge, darker at centre, hygrophanous, drying cottony or silky fibrillose; flesh thin, concolorous. Gills adnate, whitish, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-6 cm x 2-4 mm, incarnate, grooved and twisted, hollow, tough, tapering slightly upwards. Spores 8-9x4 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled, hyaline (Fig.16). Cuticle of woven hyphae.
In litter, Kaingaroa, 12.3.1958, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-3.5 µm diam., pallide incarnatus, planus, margine striato, medio intensius coloratus, hygrophanus, siccitate gossypinus vel sericeo-fibrillosus; carne tenui concolori. Lamellae adnatae, albidae, modice confertae. Stipes 3-6 cm x 2-4 mm, incarnatus, sulcatus et tortus, cavus, tenax, sursum leviter attenuatus. Sporae 8-9 x 4 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, hyalinae. Cuticula ex hyphis intertextis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 1262.
Collybia inolens sensu G. Stev. 1964
A collection from an old haystack, Weraroa, 17,8.19491 agrees with this species, sensu Bresadola, though it is larger (pileus 3-8 cm diam.), and the colour is browner.
Collybia readiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-6 cm diam., dull pink, plano-convex, large specimens becoming irregularly lobed, margin exceeding gills, waxy at first, drying paler and becoming matt; flesh white, tough in texture. Gills adnate, occasionally slightly decurrent, creamy, thin, crowded. Stipe 3-6 x 0.5-1 cm, dull pink, regular or grooved or flattened, smooth, hollow, tapering to somewhat bulbous base. Spores 5 x 2-2.5 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 17). Cuticle of woven hyphae interspersed with stellate crystals (examination of dried material).
Rooting in litter, Nelson, 23.4.1956, D. Read in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-6 cm diam., obscure puniceus, plano-convexus, in speciminibus magnis demum irregulariter lobatus, margine lamellas excedente, primum cereus, siccitate pallidior et superficie obscura; carne alba, textura tenaci. Lamellae adnatae, interdum leviter decurrentes, cremeae, tenues, confertae. Stipes 3-6 x 0.5-1 cm, obscure puniceus, regularis vel sulcatus vel complanatus, laevis, cavus, basin leviter bulbosam versus attenuatus. Sporae 5 x 2-2.5 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae, parietibus tenuibus. Cuticula ex hyphis intertextis cum crystallis stellatis interspersis sistens (e speciminibus exsiccatis).
Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 1047.
Collybia rimutaka G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-2.5 cm diam., pale cinnamon, striate at margin, darker at centre, smooth, hygrophanous, plano-convex, broadly umbonate; flesh concolorous. Gills free, cream, shallow, crowded. Stipe 4 cm x 3-4 mm, cinnamon, smooth, hollow, more or less equal. Spores 6 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled, hyaline (Fig. 15). Cuticle of woven hyphae.
In litter under mixed forest, Gollan's Valley, 2.10.1048, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-2.5 cm diam., pallide cinnamomeus, margine striato, medio intensius coloratus, laevis, hygrophanus, plano-convexus, late umbonatus; carne concolori. Lamellae liberae, cremeae, humiles, confertae. Stipes 4 cm x 3-4 mm, cinnamomeus, laevis, cavus, plus minus aequalis. Sporae 6 x 3 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, hyalinae. Cuticula ex hyphis intertextis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 455
Collybia subclusilis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-3.5 µm diam., ochraceous buff, hygrophanous, indistinctly striate at margin, matt; flesh concolorous. Gills adnexed to adnate, seceding, creamy, rather distant. Stipe 4-5 cm x 4-5 mm, ochraceous buff, velvety, hollow, tough, equal, rooting at base. Spores 10-11 x 5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled, hyaline (Fig. 19). Cuticle of hyphae of large diam., closely woven.
In rough grass, Karori, 15.10.1948, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3-3.5 µm diam., ochraceo-bubalinus, hygrophanus, margine indistincte striatus, haud lucens; carne concolori. Lamellae adnexae usque adnatae, secendentes, cremeae, subdistantes. Stipes 4-3 cm x 4-5 mm, ochraceo-bubalinus, velutinus, cavus, tenax, aequalis, basi radicante. Sporae 10-11 x 5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, hyalinae. Cuticula ex hyphis diametro magnis arcte intertextis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 459
Crinipellis filiformis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 mm diam., fawn to brown, covered with long pale fawn hairs, hemispherical. Gills few, fawn. Stipe thread-like, 1-4 cm long, dark fuscous with sparse fawn hairs. Spores 9 x 4 µm, faintly amyloid. Cheilocystidia 17 x 6 µm, non-amyloid, colourless. Cuticle with hyphal hairs pseudo-amyloid to amyloid, 3 µm diam., with walls 1 µm thick, with occasional clamp connections.
Inserted on fallen leaves, Lake Papaitonga, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 mm diam., hinnuleus usque brunneus, pilis longis pallide hinnuleis obtectus, hemisphaericus. Lamellae paucae, hinnuleae. Stipes filiformis, 1-4 cm, longus, atro-fuscus, cum pilis hinnuleis sparsis. Sporae 9 x 4 µm, levissime amyloideae. Cheilocystidia 17 x 6 µm, non-amyloideae, achroae. Cuticula cum pilis hyphalibus, pseudo-amyloidea usque amyloidea, 3 µm diam., parietibus 1 µm crassis, fibulis sparsis.
Typus: Stevenson 213.
Crinipellis novae-zelandiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-7.5 cm diam., fuscous to dark reddish fuscous, plano-convex with down-rolled margin, with or without a central umbo, finely fibrillose with a broken line of long pale coloured fibrils near the margin; flesh vinaceous fawn, tough. Gills sinuately adnexed, pale vinaceous fawn, thin, rather crowded, margins minutely serrulate. Stipe 4 x 0.5 cm, vinaceous fawn covered thickly, except immediately below gills, with fuscous to reddish fuscous, fibrillose scales. Spores 5-6 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline; print white. Gill margins sterile with balloon cystidia or woven hyphae. Cuticle and stipe fibrils of pseudo-amyloid hyphae, 5-8 µm diam., with clamp connections, some with irregularly thickened walls (Fig. 2/35, P-37).
On fallen rotting wood, Otari, 18.5.1947, Stevenson (type); Korokoro, Wellington, 20.4.1948, Levin, 22.7.1949 & 22.6.1958, all Stevenson; Pararaki River, Haurangi Mts., 15.9.1958, Mavis Davidson.
Pileus 4-7.5 cm diam., fuscus usque atro-rubido-fuscus, plano-convexus, margine deorsum revoluto, umbone centrali nonnunquam praeditus, tenuiter fibrillosus, prope marginem linea interrupta fibrillarum longarum pallidarum instructus; caro vinaceo-hinnulea, tenax. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, pallide vinaceo-hinnuleae; tenues, modice confertae, marginibus minute serrulatis. Stipes 4 x 0.5 cm, vinaceo-hinnuleus, squamis fibrillosis fuscis usque rubido-fuscis stratum crassum nisi sub ipsas lamellas efformantibus obtectus. Sporae 5-6 x 3 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae, in cumulo albae. Lamellarum margines steriles, cystidiis vesiculosis vel hyphis intertextis praediti. Cuticula et stipitis fibrillae ex hyphis pseudo-amyloideis 5-8 µm diam. fibulatis nonnullis cum parietibus irregulariter incrassatis sistentes.
Typus: Stevenson 150.
Crinipellis Pat. 1889
Collybioid to marasmioid fungi with pileus and usually also stipe covered with thick-walled pseudo-amyloid to amyloid hairs; spores normally nonamyloid, thin-walled, may become thick-walled and/or amyloid; cheilo-cystidia usually present. The species described here are arranged in two groups according to size.
Crinipellis procera G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 5-15 mm diam., ochraceous more or less covered with long-brown fibrils, plano-convex with a sharp central umbo in a very small umbilicus. Gills sinuately adnexed, then seceding, white, crowded. Stipe 6-9.5 cm x 1 mm, fawn immediately beneath gills, fuscous to dark fuscous below, velvety fibrillose, somewhat grooved and twisted, tough; flesh silky white. Spores 8 x 4-4.5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled. Cheilocystidia 10 x 5 µm with branched tips (Fig. 2/30, p. 37). Cuticular fibrils of unbranched, thick-walled, amyloid to pseudo-amyloid hyphae, 5 µm. diam. with walls 1-2 µm thick, with occasional clamp connections.
Inserted in dead twigs of forest litter, Ohau River, Levin, 22.7.1949, Stevenson (type); & Keith George Park, 26.6.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 5-15 mm diam., ochraceus, fibrillis longis brunneis plus minus obtectus, plano-convexus, umbone acuto centrali in umbilico minimo sito. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, deinde secedentes, albae, confertae. Stipes 6-9.5 cm x 1 mm, sub ipsas lamellas hinnuleus, inferne fuscus usque atro-fuscus, velutino-fibrillosus, aliquot sulcatus et tortus, tenax; caro sericea, alba. Sporae 8 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Cheilocystidia 10 x 5 µm, apicibus ramosis. Fibrilla cuticularia ex hyphis eramosis 5 µm, diam. amyloideis usque pseudo-amyloideis sistens, parietibus 1-2 µm crassis, fibulis sparsis.
Typus: Stevenson 743.
Crinipellis readiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 7-15 µm diam., vinaceous russet, plane, thin, velvety fibrillose, somewhat striate. Gills adnexed, creamy to concolorous, thin, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-4 cm x 1 mm, vinaceous russet covered with pale velvety pubescence. Spores 7-10 x 4 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Cuticle of loosely woven, amyloid to pseudo-amyloid hyphae, with unbranched endings irregularly thickened, with clamp connections.
In litter with basal mycelium binding dead leaves together, Puramahoi, 20.4.1955, Dorothy Read in Stevenson (type); & Kaingaroa, 12.3.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 7-15 mm diam., vinaceo-hinnuleus, planus, tenuis, velutino-fibrillosus, striatulus. Lamellae adnexae, cremeae usque concolores, tenues, modice confertae. Stipes 3-4 cm x 1 mm, vinaceo-hinnuleus, pubescentia velutina pallida obtectus. Sporae 7-10 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis haud amyloidea. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis amyloideis usque pseudo-amyloideis sistens, terminationibus hypharum irregulariter incrassatis, hyphis fibulatis.
Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 985.
Crinipellis roseola G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-3 mm diam., shell pink, hemispherical with or without a minute sharp umbo, velvety floccose. Gills few, adnate, pink. Stipe 15 x 0.5 mm, pink. Spores 5 x 2-5 µm, amyloid. Hyphae of tissue with clamp connections, some thick-walled, some up to 10 µm diam. Cuticle of amyloid to slightly pseudo-amyloid, more or less parallel hyphae and hyphal endings.
Inserted on fallen dead leaves of Nothofagus cliffortioides, Arthur's Pass, 7.6.1954, Ruth Mason in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-3 mm diam., pallide roseus, hemisphaericus, interdum umbone acuto minuto auctus, velutino-floccosus. Lamellas paucae, adnatae, puniceae. Stipes 15 x 0.5 mm, puniceus. Sporae 5 x 2-5 µm, amyloideae. Hyphae texturae fibulatae, nonnullae cum parietibus crassis, nonnullae usque 10 µm diam. Cuticula ex hyphis amyloideis vel leviter pseudo-amyloideis plus minus parallelis et terminationibus hypharum sistens.
Typus: R. Mason in Stevenson 961,
Crinipellis substipitaria G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 5-9 mm diam., fuscous, paler at margin, hemispherical becoming plane with a sharp umbo, covered with brown fibrillose scales. Gills free, creamy white, rather crowded. Stipe 1-3 cm x 0.5 mm, brown, fibrillose, tough. Spores 8-9 x 6-7 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia fairly numerous, 25-30 x 5 µm, with branched tips. Cuticle with long unbranched hyphae, amyloid to pseudo-amyloid, 5 µm diam., with walls 2 µm thick.
On fallen dead leaves, Lake Papaitonga, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 5-9 mm diam., fuscus, margine pallidior, hemisphaericus, deinde planus cum umbone acuto, squamis brunneis fibrillosis obtectus. Lamellae liberae, cremeo-albae, modice confertae. Stipes 1-3 cm x 0.5 mm, brunneus, fibrillosus, tenax. Sporae 8-9 x 6-7 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Tama hymenophoralis haud amyloidea. Cheilocystidia et pleurocystidia modice numerosa, 25-30 x 5 µm, apicibus ramosis. Cuticula cum hyphis longis aramosis, amyloidea usque pseudo-amyloidea, 5 µm diam., parietibus 2 µm crassis.
Typus: Stevenson 211.
Crinipellis velutipes G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2.5-4.5 mm diam., ochraceous with vinaceous striations, smooth or with sparse ochraceous fibrils towards the centre, plano-convex with depressed centre to shallow concave; flesh ochraceous, somewhat water-soaked. Gills adnexed, ochraceous, moderately distant, deep. Stipe 3-5 cm x 3-5 mm, luteous, covered with deep velvety tomentum, hollow, tough. Spores 8 x 4-4.5 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Cheilocystidia 30 x 5 µm. Hyphal endings on stipe amyloid, 3-4 µm diam., thick-walled, lobed or branched. Cuticle of closely woven hyphae 3-5 µm diam., with some thick-walled, amyloid hyphal hairs.
On fallen rotting log, Waikanae, 1.1.1951, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2.5-4.5 mm diam., ochraceus, vinaceo-striatus, laevis, vel medium versus fibrillis ochraceis sparsis praeditus, plano-convexus medio depresso usque leviter concavus; caro ochracea, aliquot aquosa. Lamellae adnexae, ochraceae, modice distantes, altae. Stipes 3-5 mm x 3-5 mm, luteus, tomento crasso velutino obtectus, cavus, tenax. Sporae 8 x 4-4.5 µm amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Cheilocystidia 30 x 5µm. Terminationes hypharum in stipite amyloideae, 3-4 µm diam., lobatae vel ramosae, parietibus crassis. Cuticula ex hyphis dense intertextis 3-5 µm diam., cum pilis nonnullis hyphalibus amyloideis, parietibus crassis, sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 792.
Crinipellis vinacea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2.5 cm diam., vinaceous brown, plano-convex becoming broadly concave with a waved, striate, and somewhat grooved margin, finely fibrillose; flesh thin, vinaceous brown. Gills adnexed to adnate, pale vinaceous, moderately distant. Stipe 2-3 cm x 1-2 mm, vinaceous above, blackish vinaceous towards base, flecked with fine fibrillose scales, tough, hollow. Spores 7-8 x 3-4 µm. non-amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae 5-8 µm diam., with clamp connections, and with irregular amyloid to pseudo-amyloid thickenings.
In litter and on fallen rotting log, Wakapuaka, Nelson, 14.4.1956, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2.5 cm diam., vinaceo-brunneus, plano-convexus, deinde late concavus cum margine undulato striato subsulcato, tenuiter fibrillosus; caro tenuis, vinaceo-brunnea. Lamellae adnexae usque adnatae, pallide vinaceae, modice distantes. Stipes 2-3 cm x 1-2 mm, superne vinaceus, basin versus atro-vinaceus, squamis tenuibus fibrillosis adspersus, tenax, cavus. Sporae 7-8 x 3-4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis haud amyloidea. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis 5-8 µm diam., cum fibulis, et irregulariter amyloideo-vel pseudo-amyloideo-incrassatis sistens
Typus: Stevenson 1029.
Fayodia cystidiosa G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 6-12 mm diam., light brown with dark brown umbo, indistinctly striate and fluted, somewhat velvety, margin paler and frilled; flesh white beneath umbo, fawn above gills. Gills sinuately adnexed, cream, some with dull pink blotches, moderately distant, bristling with cystidia. Stipe 6-8 cm x 1-2 mm, cream above, brown below, smooth, hollow, brittle, with spreading hyphal hairs at base. Spores 9-10 x 7 µm, amyloid, thick-walled, inner wall sieve-like. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 25-40 x 8-13 µm, very abundant, thick-walled, weakly amyloid (Fig. 36). Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudo-amyloid.
Amongst litter, Wellington Botanic Garden, 2.6.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 6-12 mm diam., laete brunneus, umbone fusco-brunneo, indistincte striatus et sulcatus, subvelutinus, margine pallidiore lacinioso; caro sub umbone alba, supra lamellas hinnulea. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, cremeae nonnullae sordide puniceo-maculatae, modice distantes, cystidiis horrentes. Stipes 6-8 cm x 1-2 mm, superne cremeus, inferne brunneus, laevis, cavus, fragilis, basi pilis hyphalibus patentibus instructus. Sporae 9-10 x 7 µm, amyloideae, parietibus crassis, pariete interno cribriforme. Cheilo-et pleurocystidia 25-40 x 8-13 µm, copiosissima, leviter amyloidea, parietibus crassis. Trama hymenophoralis et textura pilei pseudo-amyloid
Half-sized spores were also seen in this collection. The species may be found to have 2-and 4-spored basidia, as it appears to have 2 sizes of spores. Although the spores are smooth in outline they appear as though rough because the inner wall is irregular.
Typus: Stevenson 616.
Fayodia granulospora G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-3 cm diam., ochraceous fawn to greyish fawn, darker at centre, indistinctly striate, campanulate, smooth, dull; flesh thin, whitish, somewhat fragile. Gills adnate to sinuate, pale grey with white bloom, moderately distant, moderately thick. Stipe 2-4 cm x 1-3 mm, ochraceous fawn darker at base smooth, silky, hollow, brittle, often grooved. Spores 11-15 x 7-8 µm, non-amyloid or very weakly amyloid, strongly granular appearance, slightly thickened wall. Basidia with granulation. Cheilo- and. pleurocystidia with or without granulation (Fig. 38). Hymenophoral trama strongly, to-pseudo-amyloid. Cuticle pseudo-amyloid, cellular. Smell noticeable, unpleasant.
In 'fairy-rings' in newly made lawn, Karori, Wellington, 12.6.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-3 cm diam., ochraceo-hinnuleus usque griseo-hinnuleus, medio fusciore, indistincte striatus, campanulatus, laevis, obscurus; caro tenuis albida, subfragilis. Lamellae adnatae usque sinuatae, pallide griseae, albocereo-dbductae, modice distantes, modice crassae. Stipes 2-4 cm x 1-3 mm, ochraceo-hinnuleus, basi fusciore, laevis, sericeus, cavus, fragilis, saepe sulcatus. Sporae 11-15 x 7-8 µm, haud vel levissime amyloideae, adspectu valde granulares, pariete leviter incrassato. Basidia granulosa. Cheilo- et pleurocystidia interdum granulosa. Trama hymenophoralis valde pseudo-amyloidea. Cuticula pseudo-amyloidea, cellularis. Odor manifestus, ingratus.
Typus: Stevenson 638.
Fayodia grisella G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus 7-9 mm diam, grey, hemispherical with a shallow umbilicus and a down-rolled margin, subfibrillose, satiny; flesh very thin, fragile. Gill adnate to sinuate, pale grey with white margins, deep, moderately distant long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-3 cm x 1-2.5 mm, very pale fawn smooth, silky; flesh solid, white, fragile. Spores subglobose 4.5-7 µm diam. moderately thick-walled, outer layer hyaline inner layer strongly amyloid contents or inner wall somewhat granular, apiculus prominent (Fig. 2/37 p. 37). Hymenophoral trama weakly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia thin-walled 20-25 x 5-10 µm, more or less inflated. Cuticle of closely woven hyphae with thin-walled swollen dermatocystidia, 40-50 x 10-15 µm, with grey contents.
On fallen log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961 G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 7-9 mm diam, griseus, hemisphaericus, cum umbilico levi et margine deorsum revoluto, subfibrillosus, nitenti-sericeus; caro tenuissima, fragilis. Lamellae adnatae usque sinuatae, pallide griseae, marginibus albis altae, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 2-3 cm x 1-2.5 mm, perpallide hinnuleus, laevis, sericeus; caro solida alba, fragilis. Sporae subglobosae, 4.5-7 µm diam., parietibus modice crassis strato exteriore hyalino interiore valde amyloideo, materie inclusa vel pariete interiore subgranulari, apiculo prominente. Trama hymenophoralis leviter pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia 20-25 x 5-10 µm, parietibus tenuibus velut cellulae vesiculosae. Cuticula ex hyphis dense intertextis sisteus, dermatocystidiis tumidis cum parietibus tenuibus 40-50 x 10-15 µm, materie inclusa grisea.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 78.
Fayodia Kühner 1930
Collybioid, omphalioid, or clitocyboid fungi with dark or dull pigment-epicutis usually smooth, occasionally with scattered hair-like hyphal endings; gills subfree to decurrent; spores with a somewhat thickened, somewhat compound wall, amyloid in part and often perforate in the inner layer.
Fayodia ochracea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-10 mm diam., ochraceous, hemispherical, sulcate striate a margins, velvety. Gills sinuately adnexed, greyish, moderately distant, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-5 cm x 0.5-1 mm, pale ochraceous above light brown below, smooth with sparse hyphal fibrils at base. Spores 9-10  µm, slightly thickened walls, with clear outer layer and amyloid inner layer either granular inner wall or granular contents. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid with some large cells, up to 50 x 30 µm. Cheilocystidia ornamented (Fig. 39).
Singly in litter, Queen's Gardens, Nelson, 6.5.1957, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-10 mm diam, ochraceus, hemisphaericus, margine sulcato-striatus, velutinus. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, subgriseae, modice distantes longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 2-5 cm x 0.5-1 mm, superne (pallide ochraceus) inferne laete brunneus, laevis, basi fibrillis hyphalibus sparsis praeditus. Sporae 9-10 x 5 µm, parietibus leviter incrassatis, strato exteriore hyalino interiore amyloideo, vel pariete interno vel materie inclusa granulari. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea cellulis nonnullis magnis usque 50 x 30 µm. Cheilocystidia ornata.
Typus: Stevenson 1211.
Flammulina glutinosa G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm diam., hygrophanous, fuscous, striate at margin, drying to olive buff, convex with or without a central dimple, exceedingly glutinous; flesh thin, fuscous to buff. Gills sinuately adnexed to adnate, orange to deep chrome yellow, thin, moderately crowded. Stipe 2-3 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscous to olive buff or orange towards the top, exceedingly glutinous, hollow. Spores 8-9 x 5 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 12); print white; sterile gill edge of loosely woven hyphae and sonic balloon cystidia with clear yellow contents. Cystidia not seen on gill faces. Basidia normal, 6 x 20 µm.
On fallen rotting wood, Otari, 12.7.1946, Tararuas, Levin, 3.5.1947 & 14.5.1948, Waikanae, 1.4.1949 (type), Levin, 22.6.1958; all Stevenson.
Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm diam., hygrophanus, fuscus, margine striatus, exsiccando olivaceo-bubalinus, convexus, gelasino centrali interdum praeditus, quam maxime glutinosus; came tenui, fusca usque bubalina. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae usque adnatae, aurantiacae usque intense chromo-luteae, tenues, modice confertae. Stipes 2-3 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscus usque olivaceo-bubalinus vel apicem versus aurantiacus, quam maxime glutinosus, cavus. Sporae 8-9 x 5 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae, parietibus tenuibus; in cumulo albae; lamellae acies sterilis ex hyphis laxe intertextis et cystidiis nonnullis vesicularibus cytoplasmate claro luteo incluso sistens. Cystidia in lamellarum superficie haud visa. Basidia normalia, 6 x 20 µm.
Although this fungus has no cystidia on the gill faces or surface of the cap its affinities appear to the writer sufficient to place it in Flammulina. It also appears to have affinities with Tricholomopsis in the yellow gills with sterile margins.
Typus: Stevenson 467.
Flammulina P. Karst. 1891
Collybioid viscid fungi with yellowish gills and pure white spore-print.
Flammulina velutipes (Curtis) P. Karst. 1891
This common saprophyte, which is also occasionally a mild parasite, occurs fairly commonly on both exotic and indigenous fallen or standing timber. On Pinus pilei are often dwarfed, though they occur in dense clusters. (Lange (1936)).
Hohenbuehelia brunnea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., fuscous, paler at margin, orbicular with margin exceeding gills, velvety fibrillose; laterally attached. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, ochraceous yellow, thick, shallow, very crowded. Spores 7 x 3-3.5 µm non-amyloid. Metuloids 4.0 x 12 µm, pseudo-amyloid encrusted with crystals, extremely thick-walled, very numerous (Fig. 1/50) p.10). Cuticle of loosely woven, more or less parallel hyphae with clamp connections, up to 5 µm diam., superficial hyphae dark coloured and some irregularly thickened.
On fallen twigs, Otari, 29.7-1948, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., fuscus, margine pallidiore, orbicularis, margine lamellas excedente, velutino-fibrillosus, lateraliter affixus. Lamellae usque ad originem adnectentem decurrentes, ochraceo-luteae, crassae, haud altae, valde confertae. Sporae 7 x 3-3.5 µm, haud amyloideae. Metuloidea 40 x 12 µm, pseudo-amyloidea, crystallis incrustata, parietibus crassissimis, numerosissima. Cuticula ex hyphis parallelis laxe intertextis usque 5 µm diam., cum fibulis sistens, hyphis superficial bus fuscis, nonnullis irregulariter incrassatis,
Typus: Stevenson 404.
Hohenbuehelia luteola G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-2.5 µm diam., pale yellowish, orbicular, velvety; flesh white, soft. Gills shortly decurrent, pale yellow, moderately crowded. Stipe 4 x 3 µm lateral, pale yellow, smooth to velvety. Spores 8-9 x 4.5-5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids 45-50 x 15-20 µm pseudo-amyloid, very thick-walled, with crystals, abundant on gill faces (Fig. 52).
On fallen wood, Waikanae, 1.1.1951, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-2.5 cm diam., pallide lutescens, orbicularis, velutinus; caro alba, mollis. Lamellae breviter decurrentes, pallide luteae, modice confertae. Stipes 4 x 3 mm, lateralis, pallide luteus, laevis usque velutinus. Sporae 8-9 x 4-5.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea 45-50 x 15-20 µm, pseudo-amyloidea, parietibus crassissimis, crystallis incrustata, in lamellarum faciebus copiosa.
Typus: Stevenson 803.
Hohenbuehelia nothofaginea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-4 x 1.5-3 cm, dark greyish brown, fan-shaped to reniform becoming somewhat lobed, margin strongly down-rolled at first, densely fibrillose, sessile; flesh thin, white, tough. Gills decurrent to the thickened point of attachment, creamy to ochraceous, shallow, moderately thick, very crowded. Spores 6 x 3-3.5µm, non-amyloid. Metuloids very thick-walled, pointed, with or without crystals, very abundant (Fig. 54), Cuticle of loosely woven thin-walled hyphae 4 -5 µm diam., with clamp connections; tomentum of unbranched similar hyphae containing pigment.
On fallen dead Nothofagus, Rotoiti, Nelson, 6.6.1955, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-4 x 1.5-3 cm, fusco-griseo-brunneus, flabellatus usque reniformis, deinde plus minus lobatus, margine primum valde deorsum involute, dense fibrillosus, sessilis; caro tenuis, alba, tenax. Lamellae usque ad originem adnectentem incrassatam decurrentes, cremeae usque ochraceae, haud altae, modice crassae, confertissimae. Sporae 6 x 3-3.5 µm, haud amyloideae. Metuloidea cum parietibus crassissimis, acuta, crystallis plus minus incrustata, copiosissima, Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis 4-5 µm diam., cum fibulis, sistens; tomentum ex hyphis similibus haud ramosis pigmentiferis sistens.
This species and the previously described one seem closely related but distinct, and it is presumed that the host range of each is restricted.
Typus: Stevenson 1002.
Hohenbuehelia parsonsiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-6 x 2-4 cm, deep reddish brown, spathulate with down-rolled margin, somewhat striate at first, smooth; flesh concolorous. Gills deeply decurrent, fawn to ochraceous, deep, moderately crowded. Stipe 0.5 x 0.5 cm, lateral, concolorous, solid, fleshy, uniting in groups. Spores 7 x 5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids 50 x 15 µm, pseudo-amyloid, very thick-walled encrusted with crystals, very abundant on gill faces (Fig. 1/491 P.10)-Cuticle subregular, with occasional thick-walled hyphae with sharp pointed hyphal endings.
In humus soil or on fallen wood, Levin, 25.7-1948, G. Parsons in Stevenson (type); Otari, 7.6.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 3-6 x 2-4 cm, intense rubido-brunneus, spatulatus, marginibus deorsum, involutis, primum substriatus, laevis; caro concolor. Lamellae longe decurrentes, hinnuleae usque ochraceae, altae, modice confertae. Stipes 0.5 x 0.5 cm, lateralis, concolor, solidus, carnosus, cum stipitibus proximis fasciculatim coadunitus. Sporae 7 x 5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea 50 x 15 µm, pseudo-amyloidea, parietibus crassissimis, crystallis incrustata, in lamellarum faciebus copiosissima. Cuticula subregularis, hinc inde hyphis cum parietibus crassis et extremitatibus acutis praedita.
Typus: G. Parsons in Stevenson 387.
Hohenbuehelia podocarpinea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus up to 5 x 4.5 cm, slate grey becoming tinged brown, orbicular becoming lobed, margin at first down-rolled becoming finally upturned, velvety, sessile; flesh firm, white. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, creamy white developing some ochre tints, rather thin, very crowded, dense metuloids appearing like fine white hairs. Spores 7-8 x 4 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids up to 50 x 15 µm, pseudo-amyloid, very abundant, very thick-walled, pointed, with or without encrusting crystals (Fig. 51). Cuticle of loosely woven semi-gelatinized hyphae with conspicuous clamp connections, with a few irregularly thickened hyphal endings.
In standing dead Podocarpus spicatus. Butterfly, 22.5.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus usque 5 x 4.5 cm, cinereus deinde brunneo-tinctus, orbicularis deinde lobatus, margine primum deorsum involute tandem reflexo, velutinus, sessilis; caro firma, alba. Lamellae usque at originem adnectentem decurrentes, cremeo-albae, serius ochraceo-tinctae, tenuiusculae, confertissimae, metuloideis densis pilos albos tenues simulantibus. Sporae 7-8 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea usque 50 x 15 µm, pseudo-amyloideae, copiosissima, parietibus crassissimis, acuta, crystallis plus minus incrustata. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis semi-gelatinatis, fibulis conspicuis, extremitatibus hyphalibus paucis irregulariter incrassatis.
Typus: Stevenson 551
Hohenbuehelia Schulzer 1866
Somewhat gelatinous pleurotoid fungi with characters like those of the preceding genus [resupinatus], but with metuloids which are very abundant and pseudoamyloid.
Hohenbuehelia tristis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, buff to sordid, finely fibrillose, fan-shaped, sessile. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, creamy white, shallow, crowded. Spores 7 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids 80-90 x 15-20 µm, pseudo-amyloid, very thick-walled, encrusted with crystals, very abundant on gill-faces (Fig. 53). Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae with clamp connections, covered by tufts of parallel thin-walled hyphae 3-8 µm diam., with conspicuous clamp connections.
On fallen rotten wood, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, bubalinus usque sordidus, tenuiter fibrillosus, flabellatus, sessilis. Lamellae usque ad originem adnectentem decurrentes, cremeo-albae, haud altae, confertae. Sporae 7 x 3 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea 80-90 x 15-20 µm, pseudo-amyloidea, parietibus crassissimis, crystallis plus minus incrustata, in larnellarum faciebus copiosissima. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis cum fibulis sistens, his hyphis in fasciculos hypharum parallelarum 3-8 µm diam. transeuntibus, parietibus tenuibus, fibulis conspicuis.
Typus: Stevenson 211.
Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883
The thick mealy gills and echinate non-amyloid spores are characters by which the members of this genus are readily distinguished. However, the size and shape of spores, which is so constant a feature of the species of other genera, is not necessarily so for the species of Laccaria.
Laccaria canaliculata sensu G. Stev. 1964
This smaller species of similar colouring to L. laccata, with pileus usually channelled and striate, is almost as common, and occurs in similar places. Cooke and Massee described the spores as globose, verrucose, 9-10 µm diam. The two type-specimens at Kew, one collected by Colenso in New Zealand, and the other from Brisbane have spores the same size though the New Zealand ones show slightly thicker walls and longer spines than the Australian (Fig. 1 and 2). Specimens in the writer's herbarium show globose thick-walled spores, 6-8 µm diam., with spines 1-1.5 µm long, the spore-size being constant in each collection (Fig. 3).
Laccaria laccata sensu G. Stev. 1964
This usually brick-red species is the commonest toadstool in New Zealand occurring under both native and exotic woody vegetation at all times of the year. Singer (1951) describes the spores as ellipsoid or globose, not more than 10 µm, with spines less than. 1 µm. long. The writer has examined specimens L. laccata in The Kew Herbarium which show the following spore characters:-

(1)     coll. J. E. C. Aberdeen, Queensland, 4.8.1952; spores globose, 8-9 µm diam., spines in, close-set.

(2)     coll. R. W. G. Dennis, Portugal, 16.10.1955; spores ovoid 8-9 x 10-11 µm, spines 0.5 µm.

(3)     Herbarium Berkeley, coll. in Tasmania; spores ovoid 8-9 x 10-11 µm, spines 0.5 µm.

Lange (1935) describes the spores of C. (Laccaria) laccata var. proxima, as ovate-globose, minutely echinulate, 7.5-9 x 6.75-7.5 µm, with spines 1 µm long, but mentions also collections with large globose, spores and comments, probably the form of the spore is not constant; Rea (1922) states that both elliptical and globose spores have been found on the same plant, but this does not seem to have been confirmed and is contrary to the writer's observations.

New Zealand collections which have been examined usually have globose spores, 9-10 µm diam., with well-developed spines, but ovoid spores have also been seen. More information about the distribution of spore forms in relation to macroscopic characters would be interesting.

This mixed description also incorporates L. proxima
Laccaria laccata sensu G. Stev. 1964
This usually brick-red species is the commonest toadstool in New Zealand occurring under both native and exotic woody vegetation at all times of the year. Singer (1951) describes the spores as ellipsoid or globose, not more than 10 µm, with spines less than. 1 µm. long. The writer has examined specimens L. laccata in The Kew Herbarium which show the following spore characters:-

(1)     coll. J. E. C. Aberdeen, Queensland, 4.8.1952; spores globose, 8-9 µm diam., spines in, close-set.

(2)     coll. R. W. G. Dennis, Portugal, 16.10.1955; spores ovoid 8-9 x 10-11 µm, spines 0.5 µm.

(3)     Herbarium Berkeley, coll. in Tasmania; spores ovoid 8-9 x 10-11 µm, spines 0.5 µm.

Lange (1935) describes the spores of C. (Laccaria) laccata var. proxima, as ovate-globose, minutely echinulate, 7.5-9 x 6.75-7.5 µm, with spines 1 µm long, but mentions also collections with large globose, spores and comments, probably the form of the spore is not constant; Rea (1922) states that both elliptical and globose spores have been found on the same plant, but this does not seem to have been confirmed and is contrary to the writer's observations.

New Zealand collections which have been examined usually have globose spores, 9-10 µm diam., with well-developed spines, but ovoid spores have also been seen. More information about the distribution of spore forms in relation to macroscopic characters would be interesting.

This mixed description also incorporates L. ohiensis
Laccaria lilacina G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-5.5 cm diam. fawn, covered with dry fulvous fibrils, which crack into very small scales, convex to plane with upturned edge, which is often split; flesh thin, pale fulvous. Gills adnate, distant, lilac, and mealy. Stipe 10 cm x 3-4 mm dull fawn whitish at base, solid or hollow, subfibrous, silky striate. Spores 7-8 µm diam., spines 0.5-1 µm long, non-amyloid, thick-walled (Fig. 4); print white.
Under Nothofagus, Pinehaven, 13.7.1947, A. P. Druce; Butterfly, 26.6.1948, J. McCan, Silverstream, 27.7.1948) L. B. Moore, Woodside, 1.7.1953) M. Morrison in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 4-5.5 cm diam., hinnuleus, fibrillis siccis fulvis in squamas minimas fissis obtectus, convexus usque planus, margine sursum revoluto saepe fisso; came tenui, pallide fulva. Lamellae adnatae, distantes, lilacinae, farinosae. Stipes 10 cm x 3-4 mm, obscure hinnuleus, basi albidus, solidus vel cavus, subfibrosus, sericeo-striatus. Sporae 7-8 µm diam., spinis 0.5-1 µm longis, haud amyloideae, parietibus crassis; in cumulo albae.

The European L. amethystina is more generally purple coloured and has larger spores with longer spines than this species, which is however close to it.

Typus: M. Morrison in Stevenson 924.
Laccaria masoniae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 0.5-3 cm diam., fawn with or without lilac tints, occasionally with overlying fulvous or fuscous fibrils, striate, hemispheric rarely becoming plane, sharply umbonate, or umbilicate or both. Gills adnexed, seceding, distant, mealy, lilac or buff. Stipe 3-8 x 0.1-0.3 cm, lilac or fawn, hollow, subfibrous, often twisted, firmly bound to moss or litter by a weft of hyphae at base. Spores 7-10 µm diam., non-amyloid, thick-walled, with spines 2-3 µm long.
HABITAT: attached to moss or litter under Nothofagus solandri and N. cliffortioides, Wairarapa, 27.6.1949. Stevenson; Silverstream, 19.7.1949. Stevenson (type); Maitai, 20.6.1956, Stevenson; Arthur's Pass, 7.6.1954, R. Mason.
Pileus 0.5-3 cm diam., hinnuleus interdum lilacino-tinctus, rarius fibrillis fulvis vel fuscis obductus, striatus, hemisphaericus raro demum planus, acute umbonatus et/vel umbilicatus. Lamellae adnexae, secedentes, distantes, farinosae, lilacinae vel bubalinae. Stipes 3-8 x 0.1-0.3 cm lilacinus vel hinnuleus, cavus, subfibrosus, saepe tortus, basi ope pannuli hypharum muscis vel materiebus aliis humistratis firme adnexus. Sporae 7-10 µm diam., haud amyloideae, parietibus crassis, spinis 2-3 µm longis.
Typus: Stevenson 733
Laccaria tortilis sensu G. Stev. 1964
The New Zealand collection fits this species in the sense of Boudier (and of Singer in Sydowia 6: 177 (1952)) with spores 7 µm diam., thickly set with sharp spines 1-2 µm long (Fig. 7).
Under scrub, Wellington Botanic Garden, 1.7.1949, Stevenson.
Laccaria violaceonigra G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-3.5 cm diam., fuscous black with very small, velvety, floccose scales, convex becoming plane, with a down-rolled margin; flesh purplish-grey. Gills adnexed to decurrent, thick, some irregularly branched and ribbed, purple to greyish lavender, with white mealiness. Stipe 2.5-5 x 0.3-1 cm, purple above, vinaceous brown at the swollen base, hollow, floccose striate to almost scaly. Spores 7-9 µm diam., non-amyloid, sub-spherical with a prominent apiculus, thin-walled, spines 1-1.5 µm long. (Fig. 5).
In groups attached to litter under Nothofagus truncata. Dun Mt.. Nelson, 25.4-19491 Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-3.5 cm diam., squamis minimis velutinis floccosis fusco-niger convexus deinde planus, margine deorsum involute; came purpureo-grisea. Lamellae adnexae usque decurrentes, crassae, interdum irregulariter ramosae et costatae, purpureae usque griseo-lavandulaceae, farina alba obductae. Stipes 2.5 x 0.3-1 cm, superne purpureus, basi tumida vinaceo-brunneus, cavus, floccoso-striatus usque fere squamosus. Sporae 7-9 µm diam., subsphaericae, haud amyloideae, prominenter apiculatae, parietibus tenuibus, spinis 1-1.5 µm longis.
Typus: Stevenson 506.
Lentinellus crawfordiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3 x 2 cm, reddish brown (russet), smooth, pliant; flesh concolorous. Gills decurrent, light reddish brown, moderately crowded, deep, margins lacerate. Stipe 1.5-2 x 0.3-0.4 cm, lateral, reddish brown, tough, hollow, smooth to velutinous. Spores 3.5-4 µm diam., strongly amyloid, globose, ornamented with fine ridges (Fig. 41). Hymenophoral trama more or less regular. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae c, 5 µm diam. with walls 0.5-1 µm thick with clamp connections.
On fallen rotting wood, Nelson, 6.7.1949, A. Crawford in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3 x 2 cm, rubido-brunneus, laevis, flexilis; caro concolor. Lamellae, decurrentes, laete rubido-brunneae, modice confertae, altae, marginibus, gratis. Stipes 1.5-2 x 0.3-0.4 cm, lateralis, rubido-brunneus, tenax, cavus, laevis usque velutinus. Sporae 3.5-4 µm diam., valde amyloideae, globosae liris tenuibus ornatae. Trama hymenophoralis plus minus regularis. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis c. 5 µm diam. sistens, parietibus 0.5-1 µm crassis, cum fibulis.
Typus: A. Crawford in Stevenson 720.
Lentinellus cremeus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-3.5 cm diam., creamy white to deep cream, orbicular to reniform, convex becoming depressed, margin down-rolled, matt to almost velvety; flesh white, firm, continuous with that of stipe. Gills adnexed to sinuate, creamy white, thin, crowded, margins lacerate. Stipe 1-2 x 0.2-0.3 cm, excentric to lateral, creamy, fibrillose to velutinate, tapered downwards, swollen at base, tough, solid. Spores 3.5 x 2.5 µm, faintly amyloid (Fig. 42). Hymenophoral trama of broad hyphae, some 10 µm diam., thin-walled. Cuticle of closely woven thin-walled hyphae, 2-3 µm diam.
On fallen wood, Tararuas, Levin, 18.6.1949) Stevenson (type).
Pileus l.5-3.5 cm diam., cremeo-albus usque intense cremeus, orbicularis usque reniformis, convexus deinde depressus, margine deorsum involute, laevis usque fere velutinus; caro albida, firma, cum stipite continua. Lamellae adnexae usque sinuatae, cremeo-albae, tenues, confertae, marginibus laceratis. Stipes 1-2 x 0.2-0.3 cm, excentricus usque lateralis, cremeus, fibrillosus usque velutinosus, deorsum attenuatus, basi tumidus, tenax, solidus. Sporae 3.5 x 2.5 µm, levissime amyloideae, Trama hymenophoralis ex hyphis latis nonnunquam 10 µm diam. sistens, parietibus tenuibus. Cuticula ex hyphis dense intertextis 2-3 µm diam. sistens, parietibus tenuibus.
Typus: Stevenson 667.
Lentinellus hyracinus (Kalchbr.) G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-3.5 cm diam., ochraceous salmon, orbicular, sessile, imbricating, tough gelatinous texture, matt drying finely fibrillose; flesh firm, fawn. Gills decurrent, moderately crowded, rather thick, margins coarsely and irregularly serrate. Spores 4.5-5.5 x 4-4.5µm, strongly amyloid, subglobose, ornamented with spines and fine ridges (Fig. 40). Hymenophoral trama loosely woven of irregular hyphae c. 5 µm diam., some with very thick walls. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae, many 10 µm diam., with occasional cystidia 40-60 x 10-20 µm.
On fallen rotting wood in coastal forest, Palmer's Bush, Nelson, 14.4.1956, Stevenson.
Lentinellus P. Karst. 1879
Pleurotoid to clitocyboid fungi, stipitate or sessile) with gill-edges more or less serrulate; the strongly amyloid spores are small, globose to ellipsoid, and usually rough or verruculose.
Lentinus albovelutinus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-8 cm diam., plane with edge down-rolled, velvety fibrillose; flesh thin, pinkish. Gills adnate, white to pink tinted, thin, crowded, some forking, margins serrulate. Stipe 1-5 cm x 1.5-3 mm, whitish, excentric to almost lateral, tough, some with rhizomorphs attached. Spores 7 x 4-4.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 10). Hymenophoral trama subregularis. Cuticle of moderately loosely woven hyphae.
On fallen rotting wood, Ohau River, Levin, 25.5.1952, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 4-8 cm diam., planus, margine deorsum involute, velutino-fibrillosus; caro tenuis, subpunicea. Lamellae adnatae, albae usque puniceo-tinctae, tenues, confertae, nonnullae furcatae, marginibus serrulatis. Stipes 1-5 cm x 1.5-3 mm, albidus, excentricus usque fere lateralis, tenax, rhizomorphis nonnunquam adnexis. Sporae 7 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis subregularis. Cuticula ex hyphis modice laxe intertextis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 847.
Lentinus delicatus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 0.5-1.75 cm diam., white, floccose, plano-convex, thin. Gills adnate, white moderately crowded, margins serrulate. Stipe 1-3 cm x 1 mm, white, floccose. Spores 9-10 x 3-3.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 11). Hymenophoral trama of thin-walled hyphae with clamp connections, up to 10 µm diam., very few thick-walled hyphae seen. Cuticle of loosely woven thin-walled hyphae about 10 µm diam., with clamp connections.
In dense groups growing from a thick white mycelial mat on a fallen rotting log, Leith Saddle, Dunedin, 23.5.1953, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 0.5-1.75 µm diam., albus, floccosus, plano-convexus, tenuis. Lamellae adnatae, albae, modice confertae, marginibus serrulatis. Stipes 1-3 cm x 1 mm, albus, floccosus. Sporae 9-10 x 3-3.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis hyphae cum parietibus tenuibus et fibulis, usque 10 µm diam., perpaucae cum parietibus crassis visae. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis circiter 10 µm diam., cum fibulis, parietibus tenuibus, sistens.
Further collections are needed to confirm the identification of other Lentinus spp. listed by Massee (1898).
Typus: Stevenson 876.
Lentinus Fr. 1825
Stipitate pleurotoid fungi with lacerate gill edges; spores cylindric nonamyloid; hymenophoral trama subregular with many thick-walled hyphae.
Lentinus lepideus (Fr.) Fr. 1825
This species, common and widespread outside New Zealand, was collected at Hokio, 30.8.1948 and is recorded by Massee (1898).
Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855
The type specimen is lost and the description is doubtfully adequate.
Lepista (Fr.) W.G. Sm. 1870
Fairly large fleshy fungi with strongly down-rolled margins and sinuate or decurrent gills that are often separable from the flesh of the pileus, which is joined to them by a watery zone. Spores are rather small, rough, nonamyloid, thin-walled, and give a very pale sordid pink print.
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 6-13 cm diam., pinkish buff to ochraceous buff, young specimens sometimes pale grey, waxy, hygrophanous, convex at first becoming undulate with a more or less depressed centre, margin remaining strongly downrolled; flesh white to buff, with a water-soaked layer above the gills. Gills sinuate to decurrent, buff, thin, rather crowded, with many short gills. Stipe 4-7 x 1-2.5 cm, buff, with or without slight mauve tinge, solid or somewhat hollow, finely fibrillose. Spores 4.5-5 x 3 µm non-amyloid, shallow nodulose, thin-walled (Fig. 12). Strong sour smell.
In rough grass, Wairoa Gorge, 26.4.1956, D. Read in Stevenson (type); Wa1-1ti Domain, 19.5.1956, M. Stewart.
Pileus 6-13 cm diam., puniceo-ochraceus usque in spec minibus junioribus interdum pallide griseus, cereus, hygrophanus, primum convexus, deinde undulatus, medio ± depresso, margine semper valde deorsum revoluto; came alba usque bubalina, strato hygrophano supra lamellas sito. Lamellae sinuatae usque decurrentes, bubalinae, tenues, confertiores, lamellis brevibus multis. Stipes 4-7 x 1-2.5 cm, bubalinus, interdum leviter malvaceo-tinctus, solidus vel subcavus, tenuiter fibrillosus. Sporae 4.5-5 x 3 µm haud amyloideae, leviter nodulosae, parietibus tenuibus. Odor fortis, acidulus.
Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 1030.
Lepista muritai G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., light fuscous darker at centre, smooth, convex at first becoming broadly concave, margin strongly down-rolled; flesh fawn with a water soaked layer above the gills. Gills adnexed to adnate, thin, crowded, sordid pink. Stipe 1-1.5 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscous, striate, solid, rather tough, flesh continuous with that of cap, tapering slightly to base. Spores 6-8 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, slightly thickened walls, shallow nodulose (Fig. 1/13) P-10); print pale sordid pink. Cuticle of closely woven hyphae faintly pseudo-amyloid. Strong sour smell.
In moss under Nothofagus, Gatchpole, Wellington, 3.5.1958, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., pallide (medio intensius) fuscus, laevis, primo convexus, deinde late concavus, margine valde deorsum revoluto; came hinnulea, strato aquoso supra lamellas sito. Lamellae adnexae usque adnatae, tenues, confertae, sordide puniceae. Stipes 1-1.5 cm x 2-3 mm, fuscus, striatus, solidus, subtenax, came cum pileo continua, basin versus leviter attenuatus. Sporae 6-8 x 3µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus leviter incrassatis inconspicue nodulosis (Fig. 1/13, p.10), in cumulo pallide sordide puniceae. Odor fortis, acidulus.
Typus: Stevenson 1321.
Lepista piperita G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-8 cm diam., buff to sordid pink, matt, convex at first with centre slightly or strongly depressed, often becoming broadly concave with age, margin strongly down-rolled; flesh concolorous, with a water soaked layer above the gills. Gills decurrent, pale sordid pink, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated. Stipe 3-4 x 1-1.5 cm, concolorous, fibrillose to velvety, solid. Spores 7-8 x 5-5.5 µm non-amyloid, shallow nodulose (Fig. 11). Taste and smell mildly peppery when fresh, smell strongly peppery when drying.
Under exotic and indigenous trees, Brooklyn, 6.3.1947, Naomi Dodds; Hokio, 8.6.1948, G. Parsons; Wellington Botanic Garden) 2.6.1949, Stevenson (type); Nelson, 9-6.1955 & 20.6.1956, D. Read-, Nelson, 7.5.1957, E. Kidson.
Pileus 4-8 cm diam., ochraceus usque sordide puniceus, haud lucens, primum convexus, medio leviter vel valde depresso, aetate provectiore saepe late concavus, margine valde deorsum involute; came concolori, strato hygrophano supra lamellas sito. Lamellae decurrentes, pallide sordide puniceae, modice confertae, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 3-4 x 1-1.5 cm, concolor, fibrillosus usque velutinus, solidus. Sporae 7-8 x 5-5.5 µm haud amyloideae, leviter nodulosae. Sapor leviter piperaceus. Odor fungi viventis leviter piperaceus, exsiccando valde piperaceus.
Typus: Stevenson 6l7
Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus 2-3 cm diam., dark grey, convex with strongly down-rolled margin, silky fibrillose; flesh white, solid, with a water soaked layer above the gills. Gills adnexed, pale grey, long and short intercalating, some forking. Stipe 2.5 x 0.5-0.7 cm, solid, fleshy, pale grey fawn with darker grey markings, base surrounded by grey hyphae. Spores 5-6 x 2-5-3 µm, strongly amyloid (Fig. 35); print white.
On fallen log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 2-5 cm diam., fusco-griseus, convexus, margine valde deorsum revoluto, sericeo-fibrillosus; came alba solida, strato aquoso supra lamellas sito. Lamellae adnexae, pallide griseae, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae, nonnullae furcatae. Stipes 2.5 x 0.5-0.7 cm, solidus, carnosus, pallide griseo-hinnuleus, fuscius griseo-notatus, basi hyphis griseis circumdatus. Sporae 3-6 x 2.5-3 µm, valde amyloideae, in cumulo albae.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 77.
Leucopaxillus Boursier 1925
The members of this genus are fleshy fungi with the margin of the pileus down-rolled at first, gills decurrent to adnate often forked, stipe solid, and spores amyloid.
Leucopaxillus otagoensis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-4 cm diam., ochraceous salmon, infundibuliform with downrolled margin, smooth, silky; flesh whitish. Gills decurrent, pale ochraceous, shallow, rather crowded, repeatedly forking. Stipe 1-3 cm x 3-4 mm, pale ochraceous salmon, smooth to velvety with a weft of hyphae at the base, solid, fleshy. Spores 6-8 x 3-4 µm, amyloid (Fig. 39).
In forest soil, Woodside, Dunedin, 1.7.1953, M. Morrison in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-4 cm diam., ochraceo-salmonicolor, infundibuliformis, margine deflexo-revoluto, laevis, sericeus; came albida. Lamellae decurrentes, pallide ochraceae, haud altae, confertae, iterum atque iterum furcatae. Stipes 1-3 cm x 3-4 µm, pallide ochraceo-salmonicolor, laevis usque velutinus, basi hypharum textura praeditus, solidus, carnosus. Sporae 6-8 x 3-4 µm amyloideae.
Typus: M. Morrison in Stevenson 925.
Leucopaxillus waiporiensis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., ochraceous buff, plane to concave with a downrolled margin, matt; flesh ochraceous buff. Gills decurrent, ochraceous buff, thick, shallow, moderately distant, forking. Stipe 1-1.5 cm x 1-2 mm, ochraceous buff, pruinose, solid, fleshy. Spores 10-11 x 4-5 µm strongly amyloid, moderately thin-walled (Fig. 38). Hymenophoral trama subregular, hyphae up to 5 µm diam.; basidia 20-25 x 5-8 µm. Cuticle of almost parallel hyphae up to 5 µm diam. with clamp connections.
Amongst tussock grasses, Waipori, 31.5-1953, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., ochraceo-bubalinus, planus usque concavus, margine deflexo-revoluto, haud nitidus; came ochraceo-bubalina. Lamellae decurrentes, ochraceo-bubalinae, crassae, haud altae, modice distantes, furcatae. Stipes 4-6.5 cm x 1-2 mm, ochraceo-bubalinus, pruinosus, solidus, carnosus. Sporae 10-11 x 4-5 µm, valde amyloideae, parietibus modice tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis subregularis, hyphis usque 5 µm diam.; basidia 20-25 x 5-8 µm. Cuticula ex hyphis plus minus parallelis usque 5 µm diam., cum fibulis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 910.
Marasmiellus Murrill 1915
Habit mycenoid to marasmoid; pileus usually rather thin, with a specialized epicutis with diverticulate elements or hairs or dermatocystidia; tissues and spores non-amyloid.
Marasmiellus omphaloides G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 11-17 mm diam., dull white, thin, dry, hemispherical at first becoming plano-concave, somewhat fluted at margin. Gills adnate-decurrent, creamy white, distant, occasionally forked and with folds between. Stipe 2 cm x 1 mm, tapering downwards, cream immediately under the gills, fawn to purple brown below, solid, tough. Spores 11-12 x 4-5.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid. Cuticle of woven repent non-amyloid hyphae with clamp connections, with sparse superficial dermatocystidia which are hair-like, amyloid and thick-walled. (Fig.14).
On fallen wood, Waikaneae, 1.1.1951, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 11-17 mm diam., sordide albus, tenuis, siccus, primo hemisphaericus deinde plano-concavus, margine nonnihil striato. Lamellae adnato-decurrentes, cremeo-albae, distantes, interdum furcatae, plicis interpositis. Stipes 2 cm x 1 mm, deorsum attenuatus, sub ipsas lamellas cremeus, inferne hinnuleus usque purpureo-brunneus, solidus, tenax. Sporae 11-12 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis haud amyloidea. Cuticula ex hyphis intertextis repentibus haud amyloideis fibulatis sisteus, dermatocystidiis superficialibus sparsis filiformibus amyloideis parietibus crassis praedita.
Typus: Stevenson 801.
Marasmius atrocastaneus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., dark chestnut, intensely velvety, plano-convex with down-rolled margin, becoming plane; flesh tough, creamy yellow. Gills adnate, seceding, creamy yellow, moderately crowded. Stipe 2-4 cm x 3-4 mm, yellowish immediately beneath gills, then brownish orange to dark chestnut, velvety, tough, hollow. Spores 11-12 x 6 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline. Cuticle of pseudo-amyloid broom-cells with strongly pigmented fringes. Strong unpleasant smell.
Bound with white mycelium to clumps of Nothofagus solandri litter, Butterfly, Wellington, 10.7.1949, Stevenson (type); Roding Valley, Nelson, 20.4.1957, E. B. Kidson.
Pileus 1.5-4 µm diam., fusco-castaneus, intense velutinus, plano-convexus, margine deorsum revoluto, usque planus; came tenaci cremeo-lutea. Lamellae adnatae, secedentes, cremeo-luteae, modice confertae. Stipes 2-4 cm x 2-4 mm, sub ipsas lamellas lutescens, inferne brunneo-aurantiacus usque fusco-castaneus, velutinus, tenax, cavus. Sporae 11-12 x 6 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae. Cuticula e cellulis scopiformibus pseudo-amyloideis laciniis intense coloratis sistens. Odor fortis, ingratus.
Typus: Stevenson 715.
Marasmius caperatus Berk. 1851
The type of this species in the Kew Herbarium is material from the Himalaya. It is not Marasmius but appears to belong to the Laschia complex. No New Zealand material remains.
Marasmius caperatus sensu Berk. 1855
The type of this species in the Kew Herbarium is material from the Himalaya. It is not Marasmius but appears to belong to the Laschia complex. No New Zealand material remains.
Marasmius cockaynei G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 0.5-2 cm diam., hygrophanous, testaceous becoming pinkish fawn with testaceous blotches, plano-convex to plane, thin, dry, velvety. Gills adnexed, moderately distant, pinkish fawn. Stipe 2-5 cm x 1-2 mm, dark testaceous above, base covered with pinkish fawn mycelium, hollow, tough. Spores 7-9 x 3-3.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama weakly pseudo-amyloid; hyphae 5 µm diam. with clamp connections. Cuticle of moderately loosely woven hyphae 5 µm diam., with clamp connections, with hymenial-like surface.
Attached to fallen twigs, Dun Mt., Nelson 25.4.1959, Stevenson, & groups attached to Leptospermum litter, Otari Gardens, 7.6.1958, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 0.5-2 cm diam., hygrophanus, testaceus, deinde puniceo-hinnuleus plagis testaceis notatus, plano-convexus usque planus, tenuis, siccus, velutinus. Lamellae adnexae, modice distantes, puniceo-hinnuleae. Stipes 2-5 cm x 1-2 mm, superne fusco-testaceus, basi mycelio puniceo-hinnuleo obductus, cavus, tenax. Sporae 7-9 x 3-3.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis aegre pseudo-amyloidea, hyphis 5 µm diam. fibulatis. Cuticula ex hyphis modice laxe intertextis 5 µm diam. fibulatis sistens, superficie hymenioidea.
The Otari Gardens were established by Cockayne.
Typus: Stevenson 1374.
Marasmius croceus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., bright saffron, velvety, plano-convex with down rolled margin; flesh thin, whitish. Gills adnexed to adnate, moderately close, whitish. Stipe 1.5-2.5 cm x 1-2 mm, cream above, orange below, velvety, tough, solid, sometimes tapering at base. Spores 8-10 x 3-4 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled; gill edge with many cystidia like broom-cells or small awl-shaped cells, 10 x 1-2 µm. Cuticle of pseudo-amyloid broom-cells and awl-shaped cells, 10 x 1-3 µm.
In Nothofagus litter, Butterfly, Wellington, 22.5.1959, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., laete croceus, velutinus, plano-convexus, margine deorsum revoluto; came tenui albida. Lamellae adnexae usque adnatae, modice confertae, albidae. Stipes 1.5-2.5 cm x 1-2 mm, superne cremeus, inferne aurantiacus, velutinus, tenax, solidus, basi interdum attenuatus. Sporae 8-10 x 3-4 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus; lamellarum acies cellulis multis scopiformibus cystidioideis vel cellulis parvis subuliformibus 10 x 1-2 µm instructa. Cuticula e cellulis, scopiformibus pseudo-amyloideis et cellulis subuliformibus 10 x 1-3 µm sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 555.
Marasmius curraniae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 5-13 mm diam., cinnamon darker at centre, hemispherical with slightly flattened or umbilicate centre, velvety. Gills moderately distant, adnate, margins minutely serrulate. Stipe 6-10 x 1 mm, cinnamon above, ferruginous below, pruinose, curved, tough. Spores 7-8 x 4 µm, non-amyloid; hymenophoral trama with weakly pseudo-amyloid elements and some hyphae with thickened walls. Cuticle of loosely woven large diam. hyphae with clamp connections, faintly amyloid, with inflated endings (Fig. 2/21) P-37).
Inserted in bark of dead wood, Butterfly, Wellington, 11.2.1958, M. Curran in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 5-13 mm diam., cinnamomeus (medio fuscius), hemisphaericus, medio leviter applanato vel umbilicato, velutinus. Lamellae modice distantes, adnatae, marginibus minute serrulatis. Stipes 6-10 x 1 mm, superne cinnamomeus, inferne ferruginous, pruinosus, curvatus, tenax. Sporae 7-8 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae. Trama hymenophoralis membris aegre pseudo-amyloideis et hyphis nonnullis parietibus incrassatis praeditae. Cuticula ex hyphis latis laxe intertextis fibulatis aegre amyloideis inflato-terminatis sistens.
Typus: M. Curran in Stevenson 1247.
Marasmius druceae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-4.5 cm diam., pale testaceous, darker at centre, becoming somewhat striate and grooved at margins, plano-convex to plane with a waved margin velvety; flesh pinkish, tough. Gills adnexed, moderately distant, pinkish fawn, paler at serrulate margins. Stipe 2-4 cm x 2-4 mm, pale pinkish-buff velvety, hollow, moderately tough. Spores 8 x 4µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 24). Print white. Cuticle cellular of a faintly pseudo-amyloid palisade overlying woven pseudo-amyloid hyphae 5-8 µm diam.
On old Cyathea medullaris stump, Wellington Botanic Garden, 26.4.1949, Stevenson (type); on Nothofagus litter, Silverstream, 21.4.1958, H. Druce.
Pileus 1-4.5 cm-diam., pallide testaceus, (medio fuscius), marginibus substriatus et sulcatus, plano-convex usque planus, margine undulato, velutinus; came subpunicea tenaci. Lamellae adnexae, modice distantes puniceo-hinnuleae, marginibus serrulatis pallidioribus. Stipes 2-4 cm x 2-4 mm, pallide puniceo-bubalinus, velutinus, cavus, modice tenax. Sporae 8 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Cuticula cellularis, e sepimento aegre pseudo-amyloideo hyphis intertextis pseudo-amyloideis 5-8 µm diam. incumbente sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 592.
Marasmius fishii G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus 2 mm diam., chestnut brown to dark blackish brown at centre, campanulate, radially plicate, margin scalloped; flesh extremely thin, dry and tough. Gills adnexed, white, distant, in one series. Stipe 5-10 x 0.1 mm, blackish brown, smooth, tough. Spores 9-11 x 6 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline; print white. Cuticle with broom-cells 15 x 10 µm with dense brown colour (Fig. 18).
Inserted on dead leaves of Phormium, Lake Ngapouri, Rotorua,3.9.1960, G. R. Fish in G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 2 mm diam., castaneus usque medio fusco-atro-brunneus, campanulatus, radiatum plicatus, margine crenato; came tenuissima sicca tenaci. Lamellae adnexae, albae, distantes, uniseriatae. Stipes 5-10 x 0.1 mm, atro-brunneus, laevis, tenax. Sporae 9-11 x 6 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae, in cumulo albae. Cuticula cellulis scopiformibus 15 x 10 µm dense brunneis praedita.
Typus: G. R. Fish in G. M. Taylor 39.
Marasmius Fr. 1836
Tough to very tough fungi of a reviving consistency, especially in the stipe which is often dark coloured and string like; epicutis irregular of special elements which are non-amyloid to pseudo-amyloid; spores thin-walled usually non-amyloid, often of variable size within a single species.
Marasmius kanukaneus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-3 mm diam., lilac grey, velvety, plano-convex. Gills adnexed, white with pink tinge, distant. Stipe 1.5-2 cm x 0.5 mm, dark purplish brown, polished, tough. Spores 7-8 x 4 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline. Cuticle of loosely woven, amyloid to pseudo-amyloid hyphae, some with irregular thickenings, with broom-cell-like endings (Fig. 17).
Inserted on fallen leaves of Leptospermum ericoides, Puramahoi, Nelson, 20.4.1955, Dorothy Read in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-3 mm diam., lilacino-griseus, velutinus, plano-convexus. Lamellae adnexae, albae puniceo-tinctae, distantes. Stipes 1.5-2 cm x 0.5 mm, fusco-purpureo-brunneus, politus, tenax, Sporae 7-8 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis amyloideis usque pseudo-amyloideis nonnullis irregulariter incrassatis cellulis scopiformibus terminatis sistens.
Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 084.
Marasmius kidsoniae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-3 cm diam., fawn, plano-convex with a sharp umbo, grooved, margin waved, velvety. Gills adnate, moderately distant, whitish. Stipe 2-4 cm x 2 mm, vinaceous grey darker towards base which is slightly swollen and to which rhizomorphs are attached, fibrillose striate, tough, hollow lined with white silky fibrils; flesh vinaceous. Spores 8-10 x 4-5 µm nonamyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama of hyphae 5 µm diam., with clamp connections. Cuticle of similar hyphae, weakly pseudo-amyloid, with palisade-like hyphal endings.
On Photinia litter, grounds of Cawthorn Institute, Nelson, 26.4.1957, E. B. Kidson in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-3 cm diam., hinnuleus, plano-convexus cum umbone acuto, sulcatus, margine undulatus, velutinus. Lamellae adnatae, modice distantes, albidae. Stipes 2-4 cm x 2 mm, vinaceo-griseus (basin versus fuscius), basi leviter tumida rhizomorphas gerente, fibrilloso-striatus, tenax, cavus, cavitate albo-sericeo-fibrillosa; came vinacea. Sporae 8-10 x 4-5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus; in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis ex hyphis fibulatis 5 µm diam. sistens. Cuticula ex hyphis similibus aegre pseudo-amyloideis sistens, terminationibus hyphalibus sepimentiformibus.
Typus: E. B. Kidson in Stevenson 1193.
Marasmius masoniae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-3 mm diam., fawn, bell shaped, smooth. Gills adnate fawn. Stipe 10-15 x 0-2 mm, brown to black, thread-like, glabrous, grooved. Spores 5 x 3 µm non-amyloid (Fig. 16). Epicutis of finely branched hyphal endings.
Inserted on fallen leaves of Nothofagus, Arthur's Pass, 7.6.1954, Ruth Mason in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-3 mm diam., hinnuleus, campanulatus, laevis. Lamellae adnatae, hinnuleae. Stipes 10-15 x 0-2 mm, brunneus usque niger, filiformis, glaber, sulcatus. Sporae 5 x 3 µm, haud amyloideae. Epicutis ex hypharum termination bus tenuiter ramosis sistens.
Typus: R. Mason in Stevenson 959.
Marasmius micropilus Reichardt 1866
The writer has no collections to match the description of this fungus, which is assumed to belong to Crinipellis and to be close to C. procera. A letter from the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, dated 7th March 1962, reported that the type could not be traced. The details published are: - Pileus 10-12 mm diam., brown to pale brown, glabrous, fluted and sulcate with 16-20 grooves. Stipe 10-12 cm x 1-2 mm, blackish brown, covered with sparse short hairs. Spores 12 x 6 µm. Collected at Drury, Auckland, by Hochstetter. The illustrations show hairs on the stipe but none on the pileus. New collections from the type locality should be sought.
Marasmius oreades (Bolton) Fr. 1836
This buff-coloured 'fairy-ring' toadstool fairly commonly forms conspicuous rings in pasture. It appears to be parasitic on grass roots and leaves an area of weak grass inside the ring. Nelson, 19.4.1956, D. Read; Hope, 22.4.1956, D. Read; Nelson, 20.4.1957, E. B. Kidson, etc.
Marasmius otagensis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-2.2 cm diam., pinkish fawn with darker radial striations, plano-convex with a broad shallow umbilicus, smooth, dull; flesh thin, fawn. Gills adnate, creamy, moderately distant. Stipe 10-15 x 1-2 mm, reddish brown, tapering to base, tough. Spores 7-10 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid with some thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle cellular, weakly pseudo-amyloid.
In forest litter, Woodside, 1.7.1953, M. Morrison in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-2.2 cm diam., puniceo-hinnuleus, intensius radiatim striatus, plano-convexus, late et haud alte umbilicatus, laevis, obscurus; came tenui hinnulea. Lamellae adnatae, cremeae, modice distantes. Stipes 10-15 x 1-2 mm rubido-brunneus, basin versus attenatus, tenax. Sporae 7-10 x 3µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis haud amyloidea, hyphis nonnullis parietibus crassis praeditis. Cuticula cellularis, aegre pseudo-amyloidea.
Typus: M. Morrison in Stevenson 923.
Marasmius subsupinus Berk. 1859
The type specimen at Kew has been examined and the following; description applies to it: Pileus 5-10 mm diam., pinkish sepia, furfuraceous, orbicular to reniform. Gills adnate pinkish fawn, moderately distant. Stipe 2-3 x 0.5 mm, pinkish sepia, farinaceous, excentric, curved, inserted in dead wood. Spores 8-10 x 4-5 µm, non-amyloid. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid. Cuticle of pseudoamyloid globe cells. The New Zealand material referred to this species by Massee (1898), and preserved at Kew, is not of Marasmius but appears to belong to the Laschia complex. Massee's statement that the gills are sometimes uppermost is incorrect. The writer has no herbarium specimens of M. subsupinus, but considers that a small stalked bracket agaric, commonly seen on standing dead wood in New Zealand, is referable to this species. More collections are needed. M. inversus Massee in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 31: 343 (1898) appears to be identical, though the spores of the type, which has been examined at Kew slightly smaller, 6-8 x 4-5 µm Massee's claim that the gills are uppermost appears insupportable, and may have been due to a lack of understanding of the habit of growth.
The type specimen at Kew has been examined and the following; description applies to it: Pileus 5-10 mm diam., pinkish sepia, furfuraceous, orbicular to reniform. Gills adnate pinkish fawn, moderately distant. Stipe 2-3 x 0.5 mm, pinkish sepia, farinaceous, excentric, curved, inserted in dead wood. Spores 8-10 x 4-5 µm, non-amyloid. Hymenophoral trama non-amyloid. Cuticle of pseudoamyloid globe cells. The New Zealand material referred to this species by Massee (1898), and preserved at Kew, is not of Marasmius but appears to belong to the Laschia complex. Massee's statement that the gills are sometimes uppermost is incorrect. The writer has no herbarium specimens of M. subsupinus, but considers that a small stalked bracket agaric, commonly seen on standing dead wood in New Zealand, is referable to this species. More collections are needed. M. inversus Massee in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 31: 343 (1898) appears to be identical, though the spores of the type, which has been examined at Kew slightly smaller, 6-8 x 4-5 µm Massee's claim that the gills are uppermost appears insupportable, and may have been due to a lack of understanding of the habit of growth.
Marasmius xanthocephalus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5 mm diam., yellow, hemispherical, striate. Gills adnate, yellow 8-10 in one series. Stipe 9-10 x 0.1 mm, upper 1-2 mm yellow, dark brown below, polished, twisting as it dries. Spores 8-10 x 4 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline (Fig. 2/19, p. 37). Epicutis of more or less pseudo-amyloid globe cells.
Inserted on fallen leaves, Leith Saddle, 20.6.1953, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5 mm diam., luteus, hemisphaericus, striatus. Lamellae adnatae, luteae, 8-10, uniseriatae. Stipes 9-10 x 1.0 mm, apice per 1-2 mm luteus, inferne fusco-brunneus, politus, exsiccando tortus. Sporae 8-10 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae. Epicutis e cellulis globosis plus minus pseudo-amyloideis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 921.
Mycena (Pers.) Roussel 1806
A very large genus of usually rather small somewhat fragile fungi, with pseudo-amyloid to amyloid tissues, an epicutis of special cells or irregular hyphae, amyloid, thin-walled spores, and sterile gill-margins with various types of cystidia.
Mycena avenacea sensu G. Stev. 1964
Amongst grass, Nelson, 29.5.1956, Stevenson; Richmond 16.4.1957, Dorothy Read.
Mycena conicola G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-8 cm. diam., greyish fawn, brownish fawn at centre, striate at margin, campanulate, umbonate; flesh thin, fawn, fragile. Gills sinuately adnexed, greyish fawn, moderately distant. Stipe 5-8 cm. x 2-3 mm., fawn, silky, hollow, fragile, smooth, with spreading hyphal hairs at base. Spores 10-12 x 4-5 µm, amyloid, cylindric. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia similar, 20-30 x 10-15 µm ornamented (Fig. 47). Smell noticeable.
Rooting in fallen cones of spruce [Picea], Nelson, 20.6.1956, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-2 cm diam., griseo-hinnuleus, medio brunneo-hinnuleus, margine striatus, campanulatus, umbonatus; caro tenuis, hinnulea, fragilis, nullae sinuato-adnexae, griseo-hinnuleae, modice distantes. Stipes 5-8 cm. 2-3 mm., hinnuleus, sericeus, cavus, fragilis, laevis, basi pilis hyphalibus patentibus praeditus. Sporae 10-12 x 4-5 µm. amyloideae, cylindricae. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilo- et pleurocystidia similia, 20-30 X 10-15 µm., ornata. Odor manifestus.
Typus: Stevenson 141.
Mycena fuscovinacea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2.5-5 cm diam., deep vinaceous brown, somewhat blotchy, more or less plane becoming somewhat waved at margin, moist, smooth; flesh buff, thin. Gills free or adnexed, pale vinaceous with creamy margins, deep, distant, rather thick, many with ribs between. Stipe 5-8 cm. x 3-8 mm, pale vinaceous, larger stipites twisted and striate, hollow, fragile, smooth, with creamy weft of hyphae at base. Spores 8-9 x 5-6 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 20-40 x 8-10 µm, abundant (Fig. 51). Smell faint, earthy. Drying dark purplish colour.
In litter round standing podocarp stump, Waikanae, 15.5.1949, Stevenson (type); & in litter under exotic trees, Cawthron grounds, Nelson, 14.6.1956, Dorothy Read.
Pileus 2.5-5 cm diam., intense vinaceo-brunneus, aliquot maculosus, plus minus planus, deinde margine subundulatus, humidus, laevis; caro bubalina, tenuis. Lamellae liberae vel adnexae, pallide vinaceae, marginibus cremeis, altae, distantes, crassiusculae, costis saepe intercalatis. Stipes 5-8 cm. x 3-8 mm, pallide vinaceus, stipitibus majoribus tortis et striatis, cavus, fragilis, laevis, basi textura hypharum laxa cremea praeditus. Sporae 8-9 x 5-6 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia 20-40 x 8-10 µm, copiosa. Odor debilis, solum humosum revocans. Fungus siccitate fusco-purpurascens.
Typus: Stevenson 540.
Mycena hygrophora G. Stev. 1964
Pileus l.5-3.5 cm diam., fuscous to greyish brown, moist and striate at margin, drying fawn to greyish fawn, campanulate becoming broadly conical or plane with a broad umbo; flesh thin, fawn. Gills free, white becoming greyish, moderately distant, deep. Stipe 3.5-7 cm x 2-3 mm fawn, translucent, hollow, fragile, swollen at base. Spores 10-11 x 6-7 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 30-10 x 10 µm, pin-head and awl-shaped (Fig. 52).
On timber of bridge, Otari, 11.5.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.4-3.5 cm diam., fuscus usque griseo-brunneus, margine humidus et striatus, siccitate hinnuleus usque griseo-hinnuleus, campanulatus, deinde late conicus, vel planus cum umbone lato; caro tenuis, hinnulea. Lamellae liberae, albae, deinde subgriseae, modice distantes, altae. Stipes 3.5-7 cm. x 2-3 mm., hinnuleus, translucens, cavus, fragilis, basi tumidus. Sporae 10-11 x 6-7 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia 30-40 x 10 µm, capitellata vel subuliformia.
Typus: Stevenson 537.
Mycena inclinata sensu G. Stev. 1964
On rotting stump in Dysoxylum forest, Waikanae, 15.4.1949, Stevenson.
Mycena mariae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-2 cm. diam., dark testaceous, campanulate, more or less umbonate, sub-fibrillose; flesh moderately thin, whitish. Gills sinuately adnexed, whitish with dull red margins and some red blotches, moderately crowded. Stipe 5-6 cm x 2-4 mm, testaceous to pale testaceous, smooth with spreading hyphal hairs at base, producing some red latex when broken. Spores 6 x 11 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of Pileus pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 25-30 x 10 µm, ornamented (Fig. 54). 
In forest litter, Woodside, Dunedin, 23.5.1953, Stevenson (type). Named after Mrs. Marie Taylor.
Pileus 1.5-2 cm diam., fusco-testaceus, campanulatus, plus minus umbonatus, subfibrillosus; caro modice tenuis, albida. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, albidae, maculis rubris nonnullis notatae, marginibus sordide rubris, modice confertae. Stipes 5-6 cm x 2-4 mm, testaceus usque pallide testaceus, laevis, basi pilis hyphalibus pallidis instructus, fractus laticem rubrum scatens. Sporae 6 x 11 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia 25-30 x 10 µm, ornata.
Typus: Stevenson 905.
Mycena miniata G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-7 mm diam., crimson, striate at edge, darker at centre, campanulate, moist, drying paler; flesh thin, crimson. Gills adnate, pink with crimson margins, moderately distant, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-4 cm x 0.5-1 mm, crimson, translucent, solid, smooth with fibrils at base, producing sparse red latex on breaking. Spores 8 x 6 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissues of Pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid with many hyphae and cells over 10 µm diam. Cheilocystidia 40-60 x 5-15 µm more or less awl-shaped (Fig. 53).
Attached to Nothofagus litter, Maitai Valley, Nelson, 29.4.1956, Stevenson (type); Catchpole, Wellington, 3.5.1958, Morva Sutch.
Pileus 3-7 mm diam., kermesinus, margine striatus, medio fusciore campanulatus, humidus, siccitate pallidior; caro tenuis, kermesina. Lamellae adnatae, puniceae, marginibus kermesinis, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 2-4 cm x 0.5-1 mm, kermesinus, translucens, solidus, laevis, basi fibrillis albis instructis, fractus laticem sparsum rubrum scatens. Sporae 8 x 6 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea, hyphis et cellulis multis ultra 10 µm diam. Cheilocystidia 40-60 x 5-15 µm, plus minus subuliformia.
Like many small Mycena spp. this fungus is strongly geotropic. Specimens placed in a petri dish turn vertically in a few hours.
Typus: Stevenson 1056.
Mycena minirubra G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus 0.5-1 mm diam., crimson, hemispheric sulcate with 10-16 grooves; flesh thin, red. Gills decurrent, apricot, distant, shallow, occasionally forking, with crimson marginal vesicles. Stipe 3-5 x 0.1-0.5 mm, crimson, smooth, with white basal disc. Spores 7-10 x 3-4 µm amyloid, tear-shaped (Fig. 41). Cheilocystidia 40 x 5-8 µm, flask-shaped to pin-head, with red pigment dissolving in NH4OH.
On fallen leaves of Elaeocarpus dentatus, Wellington Botanic Garden, 4.5.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 0.5-1 mm diam., kermesinus, hemisphaericus, 10-16 sulcatus; caro tenuis, rubra. Lamellae decurrentes, colore armeniacae, distantes, baud altae, hinc inde furcatae, vesiculis marginal bus kermesinis praeditae. Stipes 3-5 x 0.l-0.5 mm, kermesinus, laevis, disco basali albo. Sporae 7-10 x 3-4 µm amyloideae, guttiformes. Cheilocystidia 40 x 5-8 µm, lageniformia usque capitellata, pigmento rubro in NH4OH soluto.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 96.
Mycena miriamae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., vinaceous brown, striate at edge, broadly conical umbonate, some with a shallow umbilicus on the umbo, smooth, moist; flesh thin, white, fragile. Gills adnexed, vinaceous grey with white margins, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm, pale fawn above to vinaceous brown at base, silky, smooth, hollow, fragile. Spores 10 x 6-8 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid, both with some hyphae 10 µm diam., and with cells of large diameter. Cheilocystidia hair-shaped or pinhead, set in a more or less gelatinized gill-margin (Fig. 50).
In soil close to wooden edging of path near Pinus plantation, Brooklyn, Wellington, 27.5-1958, Miriam Aicken in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., vinaceo-brunneus, margine striato, late conico-umbonatus, umbone nonnunquam baud alte umbilicato, laevis, humidus; caro tenuis, alba, fragilis. Lamellae adnexae, vinaceo-griseae marginibus albis, modice confertae. Stipes 3-5 cm x 2-3 mm, superne pallide hinnuleus, basi vinaceo-brunneus, sericeus, laevis, cavus, fragilis. Sporae 10 x 6-8 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea, utraque cum hyphis nonnullis 10 µm diam., et cellulis diametro magno praedita. Cheilocystidia piliformia vel capitellata, marginem lamellae plus minus gelatinatum inserta.
Typus: M. Aicken in Stevenson 1328.
Mycena morrisjonesii G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-2.5 cm. diam., fawn with brown striations, bay brown at centre, campanulate, umbonate; flesh thin, white to fawn, fragile. Gills sinuately adnexed, creamy white, distant. Stipe 6-7 cm. x 2-3 mm, pale fawn above, bay brown at base, smooth, hollow, fragile. Spores 8 x 6-7 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and pileus tissue pseudo-amyloid. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 25-45 x 5-8 µm, more or less awl-shaped; gill margin somewhat gelatinized (Fig. 49).
In forest litter, Gollan's Valley. Wellington. 20.5.1949, A. Morris-Jones in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-2.5 cm diam., hinnuleus, brunneo-striatus, medio badio-brunneus, campanulatus, umbonatus; caro tenuis; alba usque hinnulea, fragilis. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, cremeo-albae, distantes. Stipes 6-7 cm. x 2-3 mm, superne pallide hinnuleus, basi badio-brunneus, laevis, cavus, fragilis. Sporae 8 x 6-7 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilo- et pleurocystidia 25-45 x 5-8 µm, plus minus subuliformia; acie lamellarum plus minus gelatinosa.
Typus: A. Morris-Jones in Stevenson 547.
Mycena mucor sensu G. Stev. 1964
On litter under broad-leaved trees in forest, Otari, Wellington, 3.4.1961, L. R. & G. M. Taylor.
Mycena multicolorata G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 cm. diam., bright green with yellow margin becoming ochraceous yellow with green tints, darker at centre, striate at margin, broadly conical; flesh thin, yellowish. Gills decurrent, yellow, moderately distant, rather deep. Stipe 5-8.5 cm x 1-3 mm, yellow above, green below, smooth, follow, with colourless juice. Spores globose, 7-8 µm diam., amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia abundant, 30-45 x 5-10µm, ornamented. Dermatocystidia similar (Fig. 45).
In dense groups on standing stump of Cyathea dealbata, Butterfly, Wellington, 22.5.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 cm- diam., laete viridis luteo-marginatus, deinde ochraceo-luteus viridi-tinctus, medio fusciore, margine striatus, late conicus; caro tenuis, lutescens. Lamellae decurrentes, luteae, modice distantes, altiusculae. Stipes 5-8.5 cm x 1-3 mm, superne luteus, inferne viridis, laevis, cavus, succo haud colorato. Sporae globosae, 7-8 µm diam., amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia copiosa, 30-45 x 5-10 µm, ornata. Dermatocystidia similia.
Typus: Stevenson 550.
Mycena papillata (Peck) A.H. Sm. 1947
On fallen timber in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961, G. M. Taylor.
Mycena parabolica sensu G. Stev. 1964
In Dacrydium-Metrosideros forest, Pakuratahi, Wellington, 25.4.1961, L. R. Taylor.
Mycena parsonsii G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 0.1-2 cm diam., testaceous, paler and striate at margin, hemispherical; flesh thin, fawn. Gills decurrent by a tooth, dull pinkish fawn, moderately distant, deep, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2-5 cm x 1-2 mm, ochraceous fawn above, testaceous below, hollow, translucent, fragile. Spores 7 x 8 to 9 x 10 µm, amyloid, thin-availed. Cheilocystidia 40-50 x 5-10 µm, more or less awl-shaped (Fig. 57).
In clusters on fallen log, 0tari, 7.6.1958, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 0.5-2 cm diam., testaceus, margine pallidiore et striato, hemi-sphaericus; caro tenuis, hinnulea. Lamellae per dentem decurrentes, sordide puniceo-hinnuleae, modice distantes, altae, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 2-5 cm x 1-2 mm, superne ochraceo-hinnuleus, inferne testaceus, cavus, translucens, fragilis. Sporae 7 x 8-9 x 10 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Cheilocystidia 40-50 x 5-10 µm plus minus subuliformia.
Named after Mr. Ivor Parsons, for many years President of the Levin Native Flora Club.
Typus: Stevenson 1369.
Mycena pinicola G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2.5-4 cm diam., vinaceous brown, darker at centre, striate at edge, plano-convex, smooth, moist; flesh soft, dull vinaceous. Gills adnexed, pale vinaceous with translucent margins, moderately distant. Stipe 6 cm. x 4-5 mm, vinaceous fawn, smooth, sub-translucent, hollow, fragile. Spores 7-8 x 3-3.5 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 20 x 5-6 µm, ornamented, in a more or less gelatinized layer (Fig. 46).
In litter in Pinus plantation, Ettrick, 16.5.1953, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2.5-4 cm diam., vinaceo-brunneus, medio fusciore, margine striatus, plano-convexus, laevis, humidus; caro mollis, obscure vinacea. Lamellae adnexae, pallide vinaceae, marginibus translucentibus, modice distantes. Stipes 6 cm x 4-5 mm, vinaceo-hinnuleus, laevis, subtranslucens, cavus, fragilis. Sporae 7-8 x 3-3.5 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia 20 x 5-6 µm, ornata, stratum plus minus efformantia gelatinatum.
Although near to M. psammicola (Berk. & Br.) Sacc. and M. piceicola A. H. Smith, this is a considerably more robust species.
Typus: Stevenson 893.
Mycena primulina G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 5-14 mm diam., pale yellow darker at centre, broadly campanulate with indistinct umbo, dull, smooth; flesh thin, concolorous. Gills sinuately decurrent, pale yellow, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated. Stipe 2.5-5 cm x 1 mm, pale yellow darker at base, smooth, fragile, with scattered white fibrils towards base. Spores 6-7 X 4 µm, slightly amyloid,. thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudo-amyloid, with many large cells, 60-90 x 20-30 µm. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia abundant, ornamented (Fig. 44).
Amongst moss, Wai-iti, Nelson, 19.5.1956, M. Stewart in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 5-14 mm diam., pallide flavus (medio intensius), late campanulatus, umbone indistincto, obscurus, laevus; caro tenuis, concolor. Lamellae sinuato-decurrentes, pallide flavae, modice confertae, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 2.5-5 cm x 1 mm, pallide flavus, basi fusciore, laevis, fragilis, basin versus fibrillis albis sparsis praeditus. Sporae 6-7 x 4 µm leviter amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea, cellulis magnis numerosis, 60-90 x 20-30 µm. Cheilo- et pleurocystidia copiosa, ornata.
Typus: M. Stewart in Stevenson 1096.
Mycena roseoflava G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-10 mm diam., pink fading yellowish, hemispherical with a shallow central umbilicus, indistinctly striate, subfibrillose. Gills adnate to slightly decurrent, moderately distant. Stipe 5-10 x 1-2 mm, ochraceous to yellow, central to excentric, straight or curved, smooth to minutely floccose. Spores globose, 6-8 µm diam., amyloid, thin walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudo-amyloid, Cheilo- and pleurocystidia ornamented (Fig. 43).
On standing dead wood, occasionally on fallen wood, Otari, ig.5.1947, Stevenson; Pinehaven, 21.6.1947, H. Druce; Otari, 11.5.1949, Stevenson (Typus); Woodside, Dunedin, 23.5-1953, Stevenson.
Pileus 2-10 mm. diam., puniceus, in luteolum pallescens, hemisphaericus, umbilico levi centrali, indistincte striatus, subfibrillosus. Lamellae adnatae usque leviter decurrentes, modice distantes. Stipes 5-10 x 1-2 mm, ochraceus usque luteus, centricus usque excentricus, rectus vel curvatus, laevis usque minute floccosus. Sporae globosae, 6-8 µm diam., amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilo et pleurocystidia ornata.
Typus: Stevenson 539.
Mycena subdebilis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-4 mm diam., olive grey with white striations at margin, hemispherical, smooth; flesh thin, olive grey, fragile. Gills adnexed, white to grey, moderately distant. Stipe 20-25 x 0.5-1 mm, white, translucent, solid, with narrow white disc at base. Spores 8- 10 x 4-5 µm amyloid. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudo-amyloid. Dermatocystidia 20 x 8 µm, finely ornamented. Gill edge gelatinized and with cheilocystidia (Fig. 40).
On litter, Woodhaugh, Dunedin, 5.6.1953, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-4 mm diam., olivaceo-griseus, margine albo-striatus, hemisphaericus, laevis; caro tenuis, olivaceo-grisea, fragilis. Lamellae adnexae, albae usque griseae, modice distantes.  Stipe 20-25 x 0.5-1 mm, albus, translucens, solidus, basi disco angusto albo praeditus. Sporae 8-10 x 4-5 µm, amyloideae. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Dermatocystidia 20 x 8 µm, tenuiter ornata. Lamellarum acies gelatinosa, cheilocystidiis instructa.
Typus: Stevenson 915.
Mycena subfragillima G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-10 mm diam., pale greyish fawn, striate-sulcate at margin, campanulate with or without an umbo, silky; flesh thin, fragile. Gills adnate or sinuately adnexed, creamy white at first becoming pink with white margins, moderately crowded. Stipe 2-7 cm. x 1 mm, whitish above, ochraceous fawn below, hollow, fragile, silky smooth, with spreading hyphal hairs at base. Spores 9-10 x 6-7 µm, amyloid, narrower at apicular end. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 25-35 x 5-10 µm, more or less violin-shaped (Fig. 48). Cuticle of somewhat gelatinized repent hyphae with branched endings.
Singly attached to leaves of litter under planted deciduous trees and indigenous shrubs, Nelson, 6.5.1957, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3-10 mm diam., pallide griseo-hinnuleus, margine striato-sulcatus, campanulatus, interdum umbonatus, sericeus; caro tenuis, fragilis. Lamellae adnatae vel sinuato-adnexae, primum cremeo-albae, deinde puniceae marginibus albis, modice confertae. Stipes 2-7 cm. x 1 mm, superne albidus, inferne ochraceo-hinnuleus, cavus, fragilis, sericeo-laevis, basi pilis hyphalibus patentibus praeditus. Sporae 9-10 x 6-7 µm, amyloideae, apiculum versus angustiores. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura valde pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia 23-35 x 5-10 µm, plus minus constricto-utriformia, longi-appendiculata. Cuticula ex hyphis repentibus gelatinatis sistentia, terminationibus incrassatis.
Typus: Stevenson 1215.
Mycena subviscosa G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 5-10 mm diam., pale greyish fawn, striate at margin, hemispherical, viscid, drying subfibrillose; flesh thin, whitish, fragile. Gills adnate to strongly decurrent, whitish, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated, margins gelatinized. Stipe 3-6 cm. x 1-2 mm, yellow, very viscid, hollow, fragile, swollen at base which usually has spreading hyphal hairs. Spores 9 - 10 x 5 – 6 cm, amyloid. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of Pileus pseudoamyloid. Cuticle somewhat gelatinized with narrow, non-amyloid, branched hyphal endings (Fig. 55).
Singly and in groups on standing or fallen, timber, Tararuas, Levin, 15.5.1948, Leith Saddle, Dunedin, 23.3.1953 (type); & Rotoiti, Nelson, 21.4.1954; all Stevenson.
Pileus 5-10 mm diam., pallide griseo-hinnuleus, margine striatus, hemisphaericus, viscidus, siccitate subfibrillosus; caro tenuis, albida, fragilis. Lamellae adnatae usque valde decurrentes, albidae, modice confertae, longiores cum breviores intercalatae, marginibus gelatinatis. Stipes 3-6 cm x 1-2 mm, luteus, valde viscidus, cavus, fragilis, basi tumida plerumque pilis hyphalibus patentibus instructa. Sporae 9-10 x 3-6 µm, amyloideae. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cuticula sub-gelatinata, terminationibus hyphalibus angustis haud amyloideis.
Typus: Stevenson 875.
Mycena veneta G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 5-12 mm diam., prussian blue fading to yellowish-green, darker at centre, striate at margin, convex with slight central depression, translucent, very viscid; flesh thin, bluish-green. Gills free, moderately crowded, shallow, creamy to pale bluish-green, margins white at first becoming dark bluish-green, minutely fringed. Stipe 15-25 x 1-2 mm, pale bluish-green, to pale ochraceous, smooth and slightly viscid, translucent, bluish-green basal disc. Spores 9-11 x 6-7 µm, amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 42); print white. Hymenophoral trama strongly pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia are balloon-cells which may become filled with pigment, or which may be collapsed and somewhat gelatinized.
On fallen rotting logs, Kapakapanui, 23.11.1946, A. P. Druce; Waiopehu, 23.11.1946, E. Cone; Keith George Park, 30.5.19491 Stevenson (type); Otari, 7.6.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 5-12 mm diam., caeruleus prussicus, in luteo-viridem pallescens, medio fusciore, margine striato, convexus cum depressione levi centrali, translucens, valde viscidus; caro tenuis, caeruleo-viridis. Lamellae liberae, modice confertae, baud altae, cremeae usque pallide caeruleo-virides, marginibus primum albis deinde fusco-caeruleo-viridibus minute fimbriatis. Stipes 15-25 x 1-2 mm, pallide caeruleo-viridis usque pallide ochraceus, laevis, leviter viscidus, translucens, disco basali caeruleo-viridi. Sporae 9-11 x 6-7 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis valde pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia (cellulae vesiculosae) vel pigmento repleta vel collapsa et subgelatinosa.
Typus: Stevenson 600.
Mycena veronicae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-15 mm diam., pale olive fawn to whitish with fawn tint, hemispheric to plano-convex, becoming indistinctly sulcate-striate at margin smooth to velvety; flesh thin, fawn. Gills strongly decurrent, white with minutely fringed margins, moderately distant, with long and short intercalated. Stipe 1-2 cm. x 1-3 mm, white to pale fawn, glutinous, hollow-fragile, with or without a few spreading hairs at swollen base. Spores 10-11 x 6-8 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudoamyloid. Cheilocystidia hair-like to ovate, 20-30 x 5-10 µm. Cuticle with scattered swollen dermatocystidia, 20-35 x l5-20 µm, with grey contents (Fig. 56).
On fallen wood, Karori, Wellington, 12.6.1949, Stevenson; Silverstream, 21.4.1958, Helen Druce, Kelburn, 20.5.1958, Veronica Fell in Stevenson (type); Keith George Park, 7.6.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 3-15 mm diam., pallide olivaceo-hinnuleus usque albus hinnuleo-tinctus, hemisphaericus usque plano-convexus, deinde margine indistincte sulcato-striatus, laevis usque velutinus; caro tenuis, hinnulea. Lamellae valde decurrentes, albae, marginibus minute fimbriatis, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 1-2 cm x 1-3 mm, albus usque pallide hinnuleus, glutinosus, cavus, fragilis, basi tumida nonnunquam pilis paucis patentibus instructa. Sporae 10-11 x 6-8 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia piliformia usque ovoidea, 20-30 x 5-10 µm. Cuticula dermatocystidiis tumidis sparsis 20-35 x 15-20 µm instructa, materie inclusa grisea.
Typus: V. Fell in Stevenson 1324
Omphalina albida G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 0.5-2.5 cm diam., white becoming tinged cream, plane with down rolled margin becoming umbilicate, velvety to fibrillose, somewhat grooved or striate towards margin; flesh thin, white. Gills decurrent, white, thin, hallow moderately distant to crowded. Stipe 0.5-2 cm x 1-2 mm, white, centric or eccentric. Spores 5 x 3-4 µm non-amyloid (Fig. 23), cuticle of loosely woven hyphae 2-5 µm diam., with clamp connections, some with thickened walls.
On fallen rotting wood or tree fern stipes, arising individually but many close together from a spreading white mycelial mat, with or without white rhizomorphs, Levin, 3.5.1947, Stevenson (type); & Levin, 18.6.1949; Stevenson.
Pileus 0.5-2.5 cm diam., albus deinde cremeo-tinctus, planus, margine deorsum involute, tandem umbilicatus, velutinus usque fibrillosus, marginem versus leviter canaliculatus vel striatus; caro tenuis, alba. Lamellae decurrentes, albae, tenues, haud altae, modice distantes usque confertae. Stipes 0.5-2cm x 1-2 mm, albus, centricus vel excentricus. Sporae 5 x 3-4 µm, haud amyloideae. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis 2-5 µm diam. sistens, cum fibulis hyphis nonnullis cum parietibus incrassatis.
Typus: Stevenson 136.
Omphalina Quél. 1886
The members of this genus are small fleshy fungi with decurrent gills which are sometimes thick and distant; spores are hyaline, non-amyloid and usually smooth; cystidia are normally absent, and if present are insignificant; the hymenophoral trama, in contrast to that of Clitocybe, consists of irregular hyphae often with thickened walls.
Omphalina roseola G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-1.2 cm diam., pale pink to whitish, hemispherical, matt; flesh white continuous with that of stipe. Gills decurrent, thick, distant, pale pink. Stipe 2-3 cm x 1-2 mm, pale pink to whitish, matt, solid. Spores 7 x 4.5 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline, thin-walled, wider at pedicel end (Fig. 21).
In soil amongst forest litter, Levin, 18.6.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-1.2 cm diam., pallide puniceus usque albidus, haemisphaericus, haud nitidus; carne alba cum stipite continua. Lamellae decurrentes, crassae, distantes, pallide puniceae. Stipes 2-3 cm x 1-2 mm, pallide puniceus usque albidus, haud nitidus, solidus. Sporae 7-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae, termine distali latiores, parietibus tenuibus.
Typus: Stevenson 668
Omphalina sulfurea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 0.4-1.4 cm diam., sulphur-yellow, darker and greyed at centre, hemispherical, matt; flesh sulphur-yellow, continuous with that of stipe. Gills decurrent, moderately distant, sulphur-yellow. Stipe 1-4 cm x 0.5-1 mm, sulphur-yellow, fragile, smooth, translucent or opaque, solid, some with white mycelium at base. Spores 6-7 x 3.5-4 µm non-amyloid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 20).
Amongst litter under shrubs and trees, Wellington, Botanic Garden, 12.8.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 0.4-1.4 cm diam., sulfureus, medio intensius et griseo-tinctus, hemisphaericus, haud nitidus; carne sulfurea cum stipite continua. Lamellae decurrentes, modice distantes, sulfureae. Stipes l-4 cm, x 0.5-1 mm, sulfureus, fragilis, laevis, translucens vel opacus, solidus, basi mycelio albo interdum praeditus. Sporae 6-7 x 3.5-4 µm hand amyloideae, hyalinae, parietibus tenuibus.
Typus: Stevenson 750
Omphalina wellingtonensis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., orange darker at centre, plane becoming concave, margin slightly exceeding gills, matt; flesh thin, orange. Gills decurrent, orange-yellow, shallow, crowded. Stipe 2-3 cm x 1-1.5 mm, orange, smooth, hollow, fragile. Spores 10 x 4.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled; print white (Fig. 22).
Under mixed forest, Keith George Park, Wellington, 30.5.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., aurantiacus (medio fuscius), planus deinde concavus, margine lamellas leviter excedente, haud nitidus; carne tenui aurantiaca. Lamellae decurrentes, flavo-aurantiacae, haud altae, confertae. Stipes 2-3 cm x 1-1.5 mm, aurantiacus, laevis, cavus, fragilis. Sporae 10 x 4.5 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus; in cumulo albae.
Typus: Stevenson 601.
Oudemansiella australis G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus 3-5.5 cm diam., white becoming dingy fawn, convex splitting at margins, cuticle splitting irregularly and revealing firm white flesh. Gills adnate, powdery white, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, very deep with ribs at base. Stipe 2.5 x 0.6-1 cm, excentric, white above, fawn at swollen base; flesh solid, white, silky. Spores 24 x 21 µm, non-amyloid, moderately thick-walled (Fig. 13); print white.
On fallen rotting log in open near forest, Wainui Valley, Wellington, 25.3.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 3-5.5 cm diam., albus, deinde sordide fulvus, convexus, marginibus fissis, cuticula irregulariter fissa carnem firmam albam nudante. Lamellae adnatae, pulvereo-albae, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae, altissimae, basi costatae. Stipes 2.5 x 0.6-1 cm, excentricus, superne albus, basi tumida hinnuleus; carne solida, alba, sericea. Sporae 24 x 21 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus modice crassis, in curnulo albae.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 51.
Oudemansiella Speg. 1881
Rather large collybioid fungi with gigantic spores, basidia and cystidia.
Panellus atrofulvus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-2 cm diam., dark tawny, velvety fibrillose, convex to plane with an umbo; flesh ochraceous. Gills adnate, pale tawny, moderately distant. Stipe 1-2 cm x 3-4 mm, excentric, dark tawny, velvety fibrillose, hollow, tough. Spores 9-10 x 4 µm, amyloid (Fig. 6). Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 5µm diam., tomentum of almost parallel unbranched hyphae, with slightly thickened tawny coloured walls.
Strongly attached to fallen wood of Nothofagus, Hutt Valley, Wellington, 21.4.1958, Helen Druce in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-2 cm diam., fusco-fulvus, velutino-fibrillosus, convexus, serius planus et umbonatus; caro ochracea. Lamellae adnatae, pallide fulvae, modice distantes. Stipes 1-2 cm x 3-4 mm, excentricus, fusco-fulvus, velutino-fibrillosus, cavus, tenax. Sporae 9-10 x 4 µm, amyloideae. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis usque 5 µm diam. sistens, tomento ex hyphis plus minus parallelis haud ramosis, parietibus leviter incrassatis fulvis, sistente.
Typus: H. Druce in Stevenson 1291.
Panellus cremeus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-3 x 2.3-4.5 cm, creamy, moist at first drying silky, margin somewhat down-rolled and striate at first. Gills decurrent, creamy, deep, moderately distant. Stipe 2-8 x 4-5 mm, lateral, fawn above, cream below, velvety. Spores 7-9 x 3.5-4.5µm, amyloid (Fig. 2). Hymenophoral trama of loosely woven, thin-walled, somewhat gelatinized hyphae. Cuticle of loosely woven, mainly parallel hyphae.
On fallen wood, Hutt Valley, Wellington, 21.6.1947, H. Druce, Flagstaff, Dunedin, 4.7.1948, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-3 x 2.5-4.5 cm, cremeus, primum humidus, siccitate sericeus, margine primum plus minus deorsum involuto et striato. Lamellae decurrentes, cremeae, altae, modice distantes. Stipes 2-8 x 4-5 mm, lateralis, superne hinnuleus, inferne cremeus, velutinus. Sporae 7-9 x 3.5-4.5 µm, amyloideae. Trama hymenophoralis ex hyphis plus minus gelatinatis, parietibus tenuibus, sistens. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis plerumque parallelis sistens.
Typus: Stevenson. 342.
Panellus fulgens G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-6 x 3-4 cm, pinkish fawn with or without green or grey tints, glistening viscid at first drying smooth and striate, orbicular with somewhat crenulate and waved margin. Gills adnate, concolorous, moderately distant. Stipe 5-8 x 4-5 mm, lateral, pinkish fawn, smooth. Spores 8-10 x 3-4 µm, amyloid (Fig. 4). Hymenophoral trama of mainly regular hyphae with clamp connections, including some thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle of loosely woven almost parallel thin-walled hyphae.
On fallen wood, Mt. Egmont, 16.6.1948, Stevenson; &. Leith Saddle, Dunedin, 20.6.1953) Stevenson (type).
Pileus 4-6 x 3-4 cm, puniceo-hinnuleus, interdum viridi-vel griseo-tinctus, primum nitido-viscidus, siccitate laevis et striatus, orbicularis, margine subcrenulato et undulato. Lamellae adnatae, concolores, modice distantes. Stipes 5-8 x 4-5 mm, lateralis, puniceo-hinnuleus, laevis. Sporae 8-10 x 3-4µm, amyloideae, Trama hymenophoralis hyphae cum fibulis, plerumque regulariter dispositae, nonnullae cum parietibus crassis. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis plus minus parallelis, parietibus tenuibus.
Typus: Stevenson 918.
Panellus metuloideus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3 x 2.5 cm., fuscous, moist, smooth, spathulate with down-rolled margin. Gills decurrent, creamy, shallow, moderately crowded with some forking, margins becoming serrulate. Stipe 3 x 4 mm, brown above, cream below. Spores 7-8 x 4-4.5 µm amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 55). Metuloids 70 x 20 µm, pseudo-amyloid, with or without encrusting crystals, thick-walled, very abundant on gill-faces.
On fallen wood in Beilschmiedia tawa forest, Keith George Park, Wellington, 31.3.1949) Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3 x 2.5 cm, fuscus, humidus, laevis, spatulatus, margine deorsum involuto. Lamellae decurrentes, cremeae, haud altae, modice confertae, interdum furcatae, marginibus demum serrulatis. Stipes 3 x 4 mm, superne brunneus, inferne cremeus. Sporae 7-8 x 4-4.5 µm amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea 70 x 20 µm, pseudo-amyloidea, crystallis plus minus incrustata, parietibus crassis, in lamellarum faciebus copiosissima.
The cylindric amyloid spores of this fungus point to the genus Panellus where it is treated, but the very abundant pseudo-amyloid metuloids also relate it to the genus Hohenbuehelia.
Typus: Stevenson 465.
Panellus niger G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2.5-4.5 cm diam., black, velvety fibrillose, more or less plane becoming irregularly waved, margin down-rolled. Gills adnate, grey, thick, shallow, moderately crowded. Stipe 2-3 cm x 3-6 mm, centric to excentric, greyish sepia, fibrillose to fibrillose-scaly with or without tufts of fibrils at base. Spores 5-6 x 2.5-3 µm, amyloid (Fig. 2/5, p. 37). Cuticle of closely woven almost parallel hyphae with dark to very dark walls.
On fallen wood, Ohau River, 25.5.1952, Stevenson (type),
Pileus 2-5-4.5 cm diam., niger, velutino-fibrillosus, plus minus planus, deinde irregulariter undulatus, margine deorsum involutus. Lamellae adnatae, griseae, crassae, haud altae, modice confertae. Stipes 2-3 cm x 3-6 mm, centricus usque excentricus, griseo-sepiicolor, fibrillosus usque fibrilloso-squamosus, basi nonnunquam cum fasciculis fibrillorum. Sporae 5-6 x 2.5-3 µm, amyloideae. Cuticula ex hyphis dense intertextis plus minus parallelis, parietibus fuscis usque valde fuscis.
This species is close to but distinct from the Australian Pleurotus sulciceps Cooke & Massee, the type specimen of which has been examined.
Typus: Stevenson 842.
Panellus P. Karst. 1879
Pleurotoid fungi of a more or less tough and reviving texture, usually partly gelatinous, with small to medium sized amyloid spores, cylindric to ellipsoid, smooth.
Panellus roseolus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1 x 1.25 cm, pale pink with cream tint, mealy, orbicular with down-rolled margin. Gills adnate, creamy, thick, shallow, moderately crowded, some forking. Stipe 2-5 x 2-3 mm, lateral, pale pink, velvety, fibrillose. Spores 6 x 3 µm, amyloid (Fig. 3). Cystidia, thin-walled, 25 x 2-5 µm, on edges. Cuticle of loosely woven, seldom branched, semi-gelatinized hyphae with clamp connections,    
On fallen wood, Woodside, Dunedin, 22.5.1953) Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1 x 1.25 cm, pallide puniceus, cremeo-tinctus, farinaceus, orbicularis, margine deorsum involuto. Lamellae adnatae, cremeae, crassae, haud altae, modice confertae, nonnullae furcatae. Stipes 2-5 x 2-3 mm, lateralis, pallide puniceus, velutinus, fibrillosus. Sporae 6 x 3 µm, amyloideae. Cystidia cum parietibus tenuibus, 25 x 2-5 µm, in lammellarum marginibus edita. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis raro ramosis semi-gelatinatis, cum fibulis, sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 899.
Panellus subgriseus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-5 x 2-5 cm, pale grey with purple tint, moist, smooth. Gills adnate, concolorous, crowded, shallow, moderately thick. Stipe 5-8 x 3-4 mm, lateral, cream, velvety. Spores 8 x 4 µm, amyloid (Fig. 2/1, p. 37). Hymenophoral trama loosely woven, subregular, some hyphae thick-walled. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae mostly thick-walled.
On fallen wood, Waiopehu, Tararuas, 20.4.1948, E. Cone in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-5 x 2-5 cm, pallide griseus, purpureo-tinctus, humidus, laevis. Lamellae adnatae, concolores, confertae, haud altae, modice crassae. Stipes 5-8 x 3-4 mm, lateralis, cremeus, velutinus. Sporae 8 x 4 µm amyloideae. Trama hymenophoralis laxe intertexta, subregularis, hypharum nonnullarum parietibus crassis. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis, plerumque cum parietibus crassis, sistens.
Typus: E. Cone in Stevenson 236.
Panus Fr. 1838
Tough pleurotoid fungi often with central and excentric stipe, often with purple colour; spores cylindric, non-amyloid; hymenophoral trama irregular, with thick-walled hyphae; clamp connections numerous.
Panus maculatus Berk. 1855
The writer has not collected anything, which can be referred to this species the description of which is possibly adequate, but no specimen remains at Kew.
Panus purpuratus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-9 cm diam., ochraceous fawn covered with purple blotches, intensely velvety fibrillose, concave, with down-rolled margin; flesh white to pale cream, tough. Gills decurrent, creamy with purple tinge, moderately distant, moderately deep. Stipe 2-4 x 0.5-1-5 cm, fawn with purple tint, velvety fibrillose, very tough, centric to excentric. Spores 5-6 x 2-2-5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Metuloids 70 x 15 µm, very numerous (Fig. 2/9, p.37). Hymenophoral trama irregular with many very thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 10 µm diam., with clamp connections; superficial hyphae purple.
On fallen wood in coastal forest, Waikanae, 1.4.1949, Stevenson (type), & Wakapuaka, Nelson, 14.4.1956, Stevenson
Pileus 4-9 cm diam., ochraceo-hinnuleus, maculis purpureis obtectus, intense velutino-fibrillosus, concavus, margine deorsum involute; caro alba usque pallide cremea, tenax. Lamellae decurrentes, cremeae, purpureo-tinctae, modice distantes, modice altae. Stipes 2-4 x 0.5-1.5 cm, hinnuleus, purpureo-tinctus, velutino-fibrillosus, tenacissimus, centricus usque ex-centricus. Sporae 5-6 x 2-2-5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus; in cumulo albae. Metuloidea 70 x 15 µm, numerosissima. Trama hymenophoralis irregularis, hyphis multis cum parietibus crassissimis. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis usque l0 µm diam., cum fibulis, sistens, hyphis superficial bus purpureis.
Typus: Stevenson 464.
Panus tahitensis sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]
Massee (1898) records this species from Dannevirke, but the identification seems doubtful.
Phaeomycena fusca G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus1.5-3 cm diam., fuscous, sub-fibrillose with some glistening particles, finely striate at margin, hemispheric with or without a broad umbo; flesh thin, white to brownish. Gills adnexed to free, pink becoming pale fawn, deep, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated. Stipe 3-6 cm x 2-3 mm, white to fawn, silky smooth with a few tufts of white hyphae at the somewhat swollen base. Spores 7 x 5-6 µm non-amyloid, moderately thick-walled with endosporium stramineous in NH4OH (Fig. 15); print white. Cuticle of repent hyphae over a cellular hypodermium.
On fallen rotting Nothofagus log, Lowry Bay, Wellington, 23.4.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus1.5-3 cm diam., fuscus, subfibrillosus, micellis nonnullis coruscis praeditus, margine tenuiter striatus, hemisphaericus, interdum. late umbonatus; came tenui alba usque brunescente. Lamellae adnexae usque liberae, puniceae, deinde pallide hinnuleae, altae, modice confertae, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 3-6 cm x 2-3 mm, albus usque hinnuleus, sericeus, laevis, basi tumidula floccis paucis hypharum albarum praedita. Sporae 7 x 5-6 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus modice crassis, endosporis per NH4OH stramineo, in cumulo albae. Cuticula ex hyphis repentibus super hypodermium cellulae sisteus.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 85.
Phaeomycena R. Heim ex Singer & Digilio 1952
Collybioid fungi with moderately thick-walled non-amyloid spores with a stramineous endosporium.
Pleurotus (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871
Fleshy to somewhat tough pleurotoid fungi, sessile or with stipe; spores non-amyloid, hyaline smooth and cylindric; hymenophoral trama regular; colours usually dull or absent.
Pleurotus ostreatus sensu G. Stev. 1964
A small form of this widespread species, closely similar to that illustrated by Lange (1936), was collected at Levin on a tree lucerne stump by A. S. Wilkinson, 1.8.1952. This collection, Stevenson 874, had a sour smell when fresh, but anatomical characters and spores agree with descriptions of this species. A larger form with yellow gills was collected from indigenous forest by M. Curran, at Muritai, 12.2.1958.
[mixed collections and description]
Pleurotus ostreatus sensu G. Stev. 1964
A small form of this widespread species, closely similar to that illustrated by Lange (1936), was collected at Levin on a tree lucerne stump by A. S. Wilkinson, 1.8.1952. This collection, Stevenson 874, had a sour smell when fresh, but anatomical characters and spores agree with descriptions of this species. A larger form with yellow gills was collected from indigenous forest by M. Curran, at Muritai, 12.2.1958.
[mixed collections and description]
Pleurotus parsonsiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 7-12 cm diam., creamy fawn, orbicular with margin down-rolled at first and later splitting, smooth, dull, pellicle peeling; flesh creamy white. Gills decurrent to deeply decurrent, creamy, moderately crowded, thin, deep, margins becoming lacerate. Stipe 8 x 8 mm, to 1 x 1.5 cm, lateral. Spores 9-11 x 4-4.5µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. (Fig. 8). Hymenophoral trama subregular with some thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle of mainly parallel or loosely woven thin-walled hyphae with clamp connections.
On fallen wood, Dunedin, 14.12.1947, W. Stevenson; & Levin, 20.11.1948, E. Parsons in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 7-12 cm diam., cremeo-hinnuleus, orbicularis, margine primum deorsum involute demum fisso, laevis, haud nitens, pellicula decorticante; caro cremeo-alba. Lamellae decurrentes usque longe decurrentes, cremeae, modice confertae, tenues, altae, marginibus serius laceratis. Stipes 8 x 8 mm x 1-5 cm, lateralis. Sporae 9-11 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis subregularis, hypharum nonnullarum parietibus crassis. Cuticula ex hyphis plerumque parallelis vel laxe intertextis, cum fibulis, sistens.
Though this species resembles P. laciniatocrenatus (Speg) Speg. which is discussed by Singer (1950) this writer considers it to be distinct. Other Pleurotus spp. recorded from New Zealand by Massee (1898) have not been collected by the writer. As the identifications are in doubt the records need confirmation.
Typus: E. Parsons in Stevenson 461.
Resupinatus (Nees) Gray 1821
spores globose to ovoid, non-amyloid and usually smooth; without metuloids
Resupinatus crawfordiae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2.5-3.5 µm diam., reddish brown, orbicular to ovate with downrolled margin, subfibrillose; flesh concolorous, tough gelatinous. Gills decurrent, moderately crowded, shallow, fawn. Stipe 0.5-1 x 0.2-0.7 cm, lateral or markedly excentric, concolorous, velutinate. Spores 7-8 µm diam., non-amyloid, globose, thin-walled (Fig. 47). Hymenophoral trama, 1 µm cuticle of loosely woven, partly gelatinized hyphae. Spors smooth.
On fallen Nothofagus menziesii. Nelson, 6.7.1949, A. Crawford in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2.5-3.5 µm diam., rubido-brunneus, orbicularis usque ovatus, margine deorsum involuto, subfibrillosus; caro concolor, tenaciter gelatinosa. Lamellae decurrentes, modice confertae, haud altae, hinnuleae. Stipes 0.5-1 x 0.2-0.7 cm, lateralis vel manifeste excentricus, concolor, velutinosus. Sporae 7-8 µm diam., haud amyloideae, globosae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis ex parte gelatinatis sistentes.
Typus: A. Crawford in Stevenson 718.
Resupinatus dorotheae G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., dull white tinged fawn and green, orbicular to reniform with overlapping auricles, velvety to finely fibrillose; flesh thin, gelatinous, greyish. Gills adnate or radiating from point of attachment, distant, thick and soft. Stipe 2-5 x 1-2 mm, lateral, dark-green, fibrillose with fibrillose basal disc; or absent. Spores 8-10 x 4-5 µm, non-amyloid, minutely rough, thin-walled (Fig. 45). Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus of loosely woven hyphae embedded in mucilage.
On fallen twigs, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson; Nelson, 17.4.1956, Dorothy Read in Stevenson (type); & Keith George Park, Wellington, 26.6.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 1-2 cm diam., albidus, hinnuleus et viridi-tinctus, orbicularis usque reniformis, auriculis imbricantibus, velutinus usque subtiliter fibrillosus; caro tenuis, gelatinosa, subgrisea. Lamellae adnatae vel ex origine adnectente radiantes, distantes, crassae, molles. Stipes 2-5 x 1-2 mm, lateralis, fusco-viridis, fibrillosus, cum disco basali fibrilloso; vel nullus. Sporae 8-10 x 4-5 µm, haud amyloideae, minute rugulosae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura ex hyphis laxe intertextis in mucilagine immersis sistens.
A specimen of this exists in the Kew Herbarium, Colenso 749 (no locality), labelled Ag. Pleurotus scabriusculus junior, which is a distinct species, see below.
Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 1036.
Resupinatus purpureo-olivaceus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3.5 cm diam., olivaceous to purplish olivaceous, orbicular, moist at first becoming velvety; flesh ochraceous. Gills decurrent, moderately crowded, long and short intercalating, dull ochraceous with purplish tint. Stipe 0.5 x 0.5-1 cm, lateral, velvety to fibrillose, ochraceous. Spores 6-8 x 3-4.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 43) Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 5 µm diam. Spores smooth
On fallen wood, Butterfly, Wellington, 26.6.1948, J. McCan in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 3.5 cm diam., olivaceus usque purpureo-olivaceus, orbicularis, primo humidus deinde velutinus; caro ochracea. Lamellae decurrentes, modice confertae, longiores cum brevioribus alternantes, sordide ochraceae, purpureo-tinctae. Stipes 0.5 x 0.5-1 cm, lateralis, velutinus usque fibrillosus, ochraceus. Sporae 6-8 x 3-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus.
Typus: J. McCan in. Stevenson 323.
Resupinatus sordulentus (Berk. & Broome) G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-7 cm diam., sordid white with greenish tinge to pale ochraceous, orbicular to reniform, smooth to velvety; flesh concolorous, tough gelatinous at first, drying to papery texture. Gills adnexed, sordid white, deep, moderately crowded, rather thick at first but drying thin, margins somewhat irregular. Stipe up to 0.5 x 1 cm, lateral, pale ochraceous, finely fibrillose; or absent. Spores 8-11 x 6-9 µm, non-amyloid, thick-walled, with sharp or blunt spines (Fig. 48). Hymenophoral trama more or less regular of thin-walled hyphae up to 10 µm diam. Cystidia occasional on gill faces. Cuticle of loosely woven more or less regular thin-walled hyphae.
On fallen timber, Levin, 22.5.1949, Stevenson; Keith George Park, Wellington, 30.5.1949, Stevenson; Lake Rotoiti, Nelson, 8.7.1949, A. Crawford; Waikanae, 27.7.1958,M. Davidson.
The different collections show considerable variation in the thickness of the spore-wall and the sharpness and the length of the spines. Pleurotus guilfoylei Berk., P. colensoi Berk. and P. scabriusculus Berk., the types of which have been examined at Kew, all have very similar spiny spores. More collections and studies of the fresh material are needed. The cystidia figured by Mr. D. A. Reid are occasionally present on the gill-faces in Lloyd's material, which was collected at Waikaremoana by H. Hill (no date), and also in some of the writer's collections, but they are not a striking feature of the gills as they are in the following genus.
Resupinatus tristis G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1.5-3 µm diam., creamy-fawn with greenish tinges, orbicular to reniform, subfibrillose to velutinate; flesh thin; laterally attached. Gills creamy, moderately thick, distant and shallow with gill-like folds between. Spores 9 x 5-6 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 44). Hymenophoral trama more or less regular, with some thick-walled hyphae. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae, 2-3 µm diam., with clamp connections, mostly thin-walled, gelatinized.
On standing dead Beilschmiedia, Levin, 15.11.1958) Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1.5-3 µm diam., cremeo-hinnuleus viridulo-tinctus, orbicularis usque reniformis, subfibrillosus usque velutinosus, lateraliter adnexus; caro tennis. Lamellae cremeae, modice crassae, distantes, haud altae, plicis lamelliformibus interspersis. Sporae 9 x 5.6 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis plus minus regularis, hyphis nonnullis cum parietibus crassis. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis sistens, 2-3 µm diam., cum fibulis, parietibus plerumque tenuibus gelatinatis.
When collected this fungus was dry and papery but it is probably gelatinous when fresh.
Typus: Stevenson 1431
Resupinatus violaceogriseus G. Stev. 1964
Pileus up to 2-5 cm diam., young specimens violet at margin, otherwise entirely violaceous grey, bell-shaped to broadly cup-shaped with inrolled margin, fibrillose at first, becoming pruinose with scattered fibrils; flesh greyish, tough gelatinous; sessile and pendulous attached at centre of upper surface. Gills radiating from point of attachment, moderately crowded, rather shallow and thick, violaceous grey. Spores 6-7 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, hyaline (Fig. 1/46) P. 10). Hymenophoral trama of very loosely woven subregular hyphae with clamp connections. Cuticle of loosely woven branching hyphae, up to 5 µm diam., with greyish walls 1 µm thick. Spores smoot.
On fallen Nothofagus menziesii, Nelson, 6.7.1949, A. Crawford in Stevenson (type).
Pileus usque 2-5 cm diam., juventute margine violaceus, ceterum omnino violaceo-griseus, campanulatus usque late cupuliformis, margine involuto, primum fibrillosus, deinde fibrillis sparsis pruinosus; caro subgrisea, tenaciter gelatinosa; sessilis, pendulus, facie superiore medifixus. Lamellae ex origine adnectente radiantes, modice confertae, haud altae, crassiusculae, violaceo-griseae. Sporae 6-7 x 3 µm, haud amyloideae, hyalinae. Trama hymenophoralis ex hyphis subregularibus laxissime intertextis (cum fibulis) sistens. Cuticula ex hyphis ramosis laxe intertextis usque 5 µm diam. sistens, parietibus subgriseis in crassis.
Typus: A. Crawford. in Stevenson 719.
Schizophyllum commune Fr. 1815
Is common throughout New Zealand on fallen wood of indigenous and exotic trees.
Schizophyllum Fr. 1815
Pleurotoid fungi with lamellae, which split longitudinally.
Tectella Earle 1909
Sessile pleurotoid fungi with a veil; spores cylindric, non-amyloid.
Tectella luteohinnulea G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-2 -5 cm, diam., yellow to yellow-fawn, moist becoming velvety or floccose, fan-shaped or spathulate with margins down-rolled at first; flesh thin, yellowish. Gills decurrent, creamy white, shallow, thick, very crowded, margins somewhat serrulate. Stipe 2-3 x 2-3 mm, lateral, concolorous, with attached rhizomorphs. Veil felt-like, creamy yellow, well developed. Spores 6-7 x 3-4 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids 30-60 x 10-20 µm, pseudoamyloid, very thick-walled and encrusted with crystals, extremely abundant (Fig. 37). Cuticle of more or less parallel loosely woven thin-walled hyphae.
In humus layer of soil under second growth scrub, Wellington Botanic Garden, 26.4.1948, Stevenson & 26.5.1949, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-2-5 cm diam., flavus usque flavo-hinnuleus, humidus, dein velutinus vel floccosus, flabellatus vel spatulatus, marginibus primum deorsum involutis; caro tenuis, flavescens. Lamellae decurrentes, cremeo-albae, haud altae, crassae, valde confertae, marginibus subserrulatis. Stipes 2-3 x 2-3 mm, lateralis, concolor, rhizomorphis adnexis. Velum ad instar coactilium, cremeo-flavum, bene evolutum. Sporae 6-7 x 3-4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea 30-60 x 10-20 µm, pseudo-amyloideae, parietibus crassissimis et crystallis incrustatis, copiosissima. Cuticula ex hyphis plus minus parallelis laxe intertextis, parietibus tenuibus, sistens.
Typus: Stevenson 589.
Tricholoma (Fr.) Staude 1857
A genus of large to small fleshy fungi with sinuate gills, spores rather small, usually non-amyloid (though one section has amyloid spores), cystidia usually absent, hymenophoral trama regular.
Tricholoma amyloideum G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-6 cm diam., luteous more or less covered with brownish-red (claret brown) fibrils, broadly convex at first, becoming plane to shallow concave; flesh yellow. Gills sinuate, moderately crowded, yellow becoming tinged brownish red. Stipe 4-7 x 1 cm, yellow overlain with a few reddish fibrils, smooth, striate, tending to split lengthwise, solid, with a conspicuous inferior membranous ring. Spores 7-8 x 4.5-6.5 µm, amyloid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 27); print white. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae 10 µm diam., with clamp connections and internal pigment. A definite fishy smell develops in older specimens.
Under Nothofagus, Butterfly, 10.7.1949, Stevenson (type); Nelson, 12.7.1949, A. Crawford, Catchpole, 3-5-1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 4-6 cm diam., luteus vel fibrillis brunneo-rubris plus minus obtectus, primum late convexus, deinde planus usque leviter concavus; came flava. Lamellae sinuosae, modice confertae, flavae deinde brunneo-rubro-tinctae. Stipes 4-7 x 1 cm, flavus, fibrillis paucis rubidis obductus, laevis, striatus, facile longitudinaliter fissus, solidus, annulo infero membranaceo conspicuo praeditus. Sporae 7-8 x 4.5-6.5 µm, amyloideae, hyalinae, parietibus tenuibus; in cumulo albae. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis 10 µm diam. sistens, cum fibrillis et pigmento interno. Specimina vetustiora saepe manifeste pisciodora.
Spores amyloid
Typus: Stevenson 713
Tricholoma elegans G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 4-9 cm diam., orange rufous to flesh colour, plane to broadly concave with a waved margin, moist at first, drying fibrillose scaly; flesh creamy at first becoming orange rufous. Gills sinuate, moderately crowded, creamy becoming blotched with light brown. Stipe 10-12 x 1 cm, orange rufous to flesh colour, white at base, fibrillose striate with sparse flocculent scales below, equal or nearly so, solid, flesh continuous with that of cap. Spores 5-7 x 4-5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 30). Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 10 µm diam. Noticeable fungus smell.
Under Nothofagus, Nelson, 25.4-19491 Stevenson; & Waipori, 31.5.19531 Stevenson (type).
Pileus 4-9 cm diam., aurantiaco-rufus usque carneus, planus usque late concavus, margine undulato, primum humidus, siccitate fibrilloso-squamosus; came primum cremea deinde aurantiaco-rufa. Lamellae sinuosae, modice confertae, cremeae, deinde maculis latis laete brunneis coloratae. Stipes 10-12 x 1 cm, aurantiaco-rufus usque carneus, basi albus, squamis sparsis flocculosis inferne fibrilloso-striatus, plus minus aequalis, solidus; came cum pileo continua. Sporae 5-7 x 4.5-5 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis usque 10 µm diam. sistens. Odor fungosus manifestus.
Spires inamyloid
Typus: Stevenson 911
Tricholoma hemisphaericum G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 1-1.5 cm diam., greyish sepia, hemispherical, matt, cuticle drying paler and cracking into small scales; flesh thin, brownish. Gills decurrent by a tooth, deep, distant, whitish. Stipe 2-5 cm x 1-3 mm, greyish sepia, tapering slightly to base, solid, surface smooth, striate, cracking to make a few small scales below. Spores 6-7 x 4µm, faintly amyloid, oblong-ovoid, hyaline, thin-walled (Fig. 26).
In soil under Podocarpus totara, Woodside, Dunedin, 23-5-1953, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 1-1.5 cm diam., griseo-sepiino-brunneus, hemisphaericus, haud nitidus, cuticula siccitate pallidiore et in squamas parvas fissa; came tenui brunnescente. Lamellae ope denticuli decurrentes, altae, distantes, albidae. Stipes 2.5 cm x 1-3 mm, griseo-sepiino-brunneus, inferne leviter angustatus, solidus superficie laevi, striatus, inferne in squamas parvas paucas fissus. Sporae 6-7 x 4 µm, dilute amyloideae, oblongo-ovoideae, hyalinae, parietibus tenuibus.
Spores amyloid
Typus: Stevenson 903.
Tricholoma murinum G.M. Taylor & G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-5 cm diam., mouse grey, darker at centre, convex to plane with depressed centre, velvety; flesh white with a thin grey zone above the gills, continuous with that of stipe. Gills sinuate, pale grey, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-4 x 0.5-1 cm, pale grey above, darker grey with ochraceous tints below, longitudinally striate; flesh silky white when first cut, becoming greyish. Spores 6-7 x 3.5-4 µm non-amyloid (Fig. 31).
Under scrub, Wellington Botanic Garden, 24.6.1960, B. Sneddon in G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 2-5 cm diam., murino-griseus (medio fuscius), convexus usque planus medio depresso, velutinus; came alba (zona tenui supra lamellas grisea) cum stipite continua. Lamellae sinuosae, pallide griseae, modice confertae. Stipes 3-4 x 0.5-1 cm, superne pallide griseus, inferne fuscius griseus, ochraceo-tinctus, longitudinaliter striatus; came nuper secta sericeo-alba, deinde cinerascente. Sporae 6-7 x 3.5-4 µm haud amyloideae.
spores inamyloid
Typus: B. Sneddon in G. M. Taylor 5.
Tricholoma ornaticeps G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 7-8 cm diam., ochraceous to saffron yellow thickly dotted with small brown fibrillose scales, convex with down-rolled margin becoming broadly concave; flesh creamy yellow continuous with that of stipe. Gills sinuate, moderately distant, yellow staining brown at edges. Stipe 3 x 1 cm, creamy above, ochraceous at base, fibrillose striate. Spores 8-8.5 x 4.5-5 µm, non-amyloid, ovoid, moderately thin-walled (Fig. 32); copious white spore print. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae about 5 µm diam.; scales are coremia-like tufts of parallel hyphae 3-5 µm diam., with thickened walls which are rusty brown in transmitted light.
In mountain forest, Waiopehu, 20.4.19471 E-Cone in Stevenson (type).
Pileus 7-8 cm diam., ochraceus usque croceus, squamulis parvis brunneis fibrillosis dense sparsus, convexus, margine deflexo-revoluto, deinde late concavus; came cremeo-lutea cum stipite continua. Lamellae sinuosae, modice distantes, luteae, marginibus brunneo-tinctis. Stipes 3 x 1 cm, superne cremeus, basi ochraceus, fibrilloso-striatus. Sporae 8-8.5 x 4.5-5 µm haud amyloideae, ovoideae, parietibus modice crassis, sporarum cumulo copioso albo. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis circiter 5 µm diam. sistens; squamae e crinibus coremiiformibus hypharum parallelarum 3-5 µm diam. sistentes, parietibus incrassatis luce transmissa ferrugineo-brunneis.
Spores inamyloid
Typus: E. Cone in Stevenson 237
Tricholoma testaceum G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 6-8 cm diam., light testaceous, convex with strongly down-rolled margin, smooth to finely fibrillose; flesh thick, white. Gills sinuate, moderately crowded, cream, becoming creamy fawn. Stipe 4-5 x 1-2 cm, creamy above membranous ring, light testaceous below, velvety to finely fibrillose, solid, equal; flesh white, rather tough, continuous with that of cap. Spores 5-6 x 4-4.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 28); print white. Hymenophoral trama sub-regular, of hyphae up to 5 µm diam. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 10 µm. diam., with internal pigment. Smell earthy.
Under exotic needle-leaved trees, Day's Bay, 1.11.1949, Stevenson (type); Nelson, 4.4.1957 & 15.4.19571 both D. Read.
Pileus 6-8 cm diam., laete testaceus, convexus margine valde deflexo-revoluto, laevis usque tenuiter fibrillosus; came crassa alba. Lamellae sinuosae, modice confertae, cremeae deinde cremeo-fulvae. Stipes 4-5 x 1-2 cm, supra annulum membranaceum cremeus, inferne laete testaceus, velutinus usque tenuiter fibrillosus, solidus, aequalis; came alba subtenaci cum pileo continua. Sporae 5-6 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis subregularis, ex hyphis usque 5 µm diam. sistens. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis usque 10 µm diam pigmento interno praeditis sistens. Odor humosus.
Spores non-amyloid
Typus: Stevenson 768.
Tricholoma viridiolivaceum G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 3-8 cm diam., olive green overlain with sparse brown fibrils at centre, convex with down-rolled margin at first, becoming irregularly plane, moist and smooth, drying subfibrillose; flesh dull whitish, somewhat water-soaked. Gills sinuate, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, often forked, creamy white becoming tinged dull pink. Stipe 3-8 x 3-5 cm, often swollen, with traces of a fibrillose ring, creamy and finely fibrillose above the ring, olive green and fibrillose scaly below. Spores 6-7 x 4-5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 29); print white. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae, mostly narrow but a few up to 5 µm diam. Smell faint at first becoming strongly fishy.
Under Nothofagus, Butterfly, 26.6.1948, S. McCann; Butterfly, 10.7.19491 Stevenson (type); Rotoiti, 16.5.1956, E. Kidson; Catchpole, 3.5-1958 Stevenson.
Pileus 3-8 cm diam., olivaceus, medio fibrillis brunneis sparsis obductus, convexus, margine primum deflexo-revoluto, deinde irregulariter planus, humidus atque laevis, siccitate subfibrillosus; came surde albida nonnihil aquosa. Lamellae sinuosae, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus interspersae, saepe furcatae, cremeo-albae deinde surde puniceo-tinctae. Stipes 3-8 x 3-5 cm, saepe tumidus, cum vestigiis annuli fibrosi, supra annulum cremeus et tenuiter fibrillosus, inferne olivaceus et fibrilloso-squamosus. Sporae 6-7 x 4-5 µm haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis plerumque angustis sed paucis usque 5 µm diam. Odor primum levis, serius pisces valde redolens.
Spores non-amyloid
Typus: Stevenson 710.
Tricholomopsis rutilans (Schaeff.) Singer 1939
Specimens closely corresponding with European descriptions were found abundantly in Kaingaroa forest, on fallen and standing dead Pinus on 12.3.1958
Tricholomopsis Singer 1939
Clitocyboid to tricholomatoid fungi often with an eccentric stipe. The pileus is fleshy and more or less fibrillose. Gills have a sterile margin with balloon cystidia; spores are simple, normally smooth, non-amyloid.
Tricholomopsis vinosa G. Stev. 1964
Pileus 2-5 µm diam., vinaceous, convex with down-rolled margin exceeding the gills, becoming plane, dry, covered with small fibrillose scales; flesh creamy or white. Gills sinuate, moderately crowded, creamy white. Stipe 2-6 cm x 3-6 mm, vinaceous, striate above indistinct ring, floccose scaly below, fibrous, equal, solid or somewhat hollow at base, flesh white or pale vinaceous continuous with that of cap. Spores 6-7 x 4-5 µm, faintly amyloid, moderately thick-walled, finely spinulose; print white. Cystidia sparsely scattered on gill faces (Fig. 14). Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae mostly narrow and collapsed, but some up to 5 µm diam., clamp connections conspicuous.
On fallen wood in mixed forest, Levin, 18.6.1349, Stevenson; & Waikanae, 1.1.1951, Stevenson (type).
Pileus 2-5 cm diam., vinaceus, convexus, margine deflexo-revoluto lamellas excedente, deinde planus, siccus, squamulis parvis fibrillosis obtectus; carne cremea vel alba. Lamellae sinuosae, modice confertae, cremeo-albae. Stipes 2-6 cm x 3-6 mm, vinaceus, supra annulum indistinctum striatus, inferne floccoso-squamosus, fibrosus, aequalis, basi solidus vel subcavus; carne alba vel pallide vinacea cum pileo continua. Sporae 6-7 x 4-5 µm levissime amyloideae, parietibus modice crassis, tenuiter spinulosae; in cumulo albae. Cystidia per superficiem lamellarum parce sparsa. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis plerumque angustis et collapsis sed interdum usque 5 µm diam, sistens, fibulis conspicuis.
Typus: Stevenson 795
Xeromphalina Kühner & Maire 1934
Omphalioid to marasmioid fungi, strongly pigmented, often with pigment incrustations, which turn pink in alkali; gills broadly adnate to decurrent; stipe with coloured basal tomentum which is often conspicuous and strigose.
Xeromphalina racemosa G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964
Pileus 2-4 mm diam., cinnamon, darker at centre and with dark striations. Gills decurrent, concolorous, distant, about 10 in number. Stipe 4-5 x 0.25-0.5 mm cinnamon, thickest where gills are attached, with strigose ball of spreading hyphae at base, attached to dark brown, branching rhizomorphs. Spores 7 x 4.5 µm, amyloid. Hyphae of cap and stipe pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 30-40 x 3-8 µm hair-like to bottle-shaped (Fig. 58).
In well-rotted log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).
Pileus 2-4 mm diam., cinnamomeus (medio fuscius), striis fuscis notatus. Lamellae decurrentes, concolores, distantes, circiter 10. Stipes 4-5 x 0.25-0.5 mm, cinnamomeus, prope lamellarum insertionem crassior, basi massa globosa strigosa hypharum patentium instructus, rhizomorphis fusco-brunneis ramosis affixus. Sporae 7 x 4.5 µm amyloideae. Hyphae pilei et stipitis pseudo-amyloideae. Cheilocystidia 30-40 x 3-8 µm piliformia usque lageniformia.
Typus: G. M. Taylor 74.

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