Psilocybe weraroa Borov., Oborník & Noordel. 2011

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Name scientific

Psilocybe weraroa Borov., Oborník & Noordel. in Borovička et al., Mycol. Prog. 10 153 (2011)

Preferred name

Psilocybe weraroa Borov., Oborník & Noordel. 2011

Taxonomy reference

Borovička, J.; Noordeloos, M.E.; Gryndler, M.; Oborník, M. 2011: Molecular phylogeny of Psilocybe cyanescens complex in Europe, with reference to the position of the secotioid Weraroa novae-zelandiae. Mycological Progress 10(2): 149-155.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Borov., Oborník & Noordel.

Authors

Borov., Oborník & Noordel.

Publication place

Year published

2011

Publication page

153

Nomenclatural status

replacement, replacement name

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Based on

Secotium novae-zelandiae G. Cunn. 1924

Blocking name

Psilocybe novae-zelandiae Guzmán & E. Horak 1979 [1978]

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Psilocybe weraroa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogastraceae

Genus

Psilocybe

Species

weraroa

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cupressus macrocarpa Gordon

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea dealbata (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea medullaris (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Fuscospora truncata

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. 1983

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum ericoides

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Macropiper excelsum (G.Forst.) Miq.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Melicytus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Metrosideros excelsa Gaertn.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus radiata D.Don

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Cunningham, G.H. 1924: A critical revision of the Australian and New Zealand species of the genus Secotium. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(2): 97-119.

Secotium novae-zelandiae G. Cunn. 1924

Collections Examined

Distribution.-Weraroa, Wellington, N.Z. (100 m., G.H.C. 1/8/19. Type), Weraroa (E. H. Atkinson, 20/8/19; J. C. Neill, G.H.C., 2/5/23), Forest, Botanical Gardens, Wellington (80 m., G.H.C., May, Aug., 1922). Specimens in the herbarium of the writer, Nos. 872, 874, 1098.

Description

Peridium commonly french-grey, changing in old specimens to pallid-green, ovate or elliptic-oblong, apex bluntly acuminate or obtuse, base bluntly rounded, or decurrent, 3-5 cm. high, 1.5-3 cm. wide, at first finely fibrillose, fibrils longitudinally arranged, so that the surface appears striate, becoming smooth, glabrous, polished and slightly viscid, coriaceous; margin folded and frequently lacerate, drying dingy brown. Stipe pallid french-grey or tinted bluish-green, yellowish at the base, slender, up to 4 cm. long, and 6 mm. thick, equal, at first fibrillose, becoming glabrous and polished, save at the base,. hollow; columella thickened at the apex. Gleba chocolate- or sepia-brown, coarsely cellular, sometimes lamellar, cells elongated, up to 10 mm., sparse, laterally compressed, dissepiments thin. Spores smooth, sepia-coloured, elliptic-ovate or elliptical, rounded at one end, 11-15 x 5-8 µ, epispore thin.

Habitat

Habitat.-Solitary or crowded on decaying wood buried in the substratum. In lowland rain forest.

Latin

Peridio pallido-griseo vel pallido-wide, ovato vel elliptieo-oblongo, apice acuto vel obtuso, 3-5 cm. alto, 1.5-3 cm. lato, primum fibrilloso demum leve, glabro. Stipite pallido-griseo vel pallido-viride, 4 cm. longo, 6 mm. crasso, glabro, excavato. Gleba brunneo-nigra, cellulose vel lamelliforma. Sporis brunneo-nigris, elliptico-ovatis, vel ellipticis, levibus, 11-15 x 5-8 µ.

Notes

The sepia colour of the gleba serves to separate this from any other species in this section. It is fairly abundant in the early winter and spring months in lowland mixed rain-forest near Wellington. It occurs only on decaying wood, principally on rotting branches of Melicytus ramiflorus Forst. I have recently obtained a very complete suite of developmental stages, from which the abbreviated account of its development has been drawn up. The plant is usually covered with dried leaves, and so difficult to find unless these be first removed. It is readily eaten by slugs, and it is in consequence often difficult to find mature specimens that have not been injured by these animals.
The shape of the peridium varies considerably in different specimens, for one may obtain ovate, elliptical or even depressed-globose plants. When the plant is ovate, the columella is usually considerably thickened at the apex. Another variable feature is the gleba, which may in certain specimens be cellular, whilst in others it may be lamellas, approaching in extreme cases the gleba of 3. agaricoides. As all intermediate stages may be collected it is impossible to segregate these forms, save at the extremes.

Typification

Solitary vel gregarii ad lignis in silvis. Weraroa, Wellington, N.Z. 100 m. G.H.C.