Entoloma subgen. Claudopus (Gill,) Noordel. 1992

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Entoloma subgen. Claudopus (Gill,) Noordel. (1992)

Preferred name

Entoloma subgen. Claudopus (Gill,) Noordel. 1992

Nomenclature

Authors

(Gill,) Noordel.

Original authors

Gill

Combination authors

Noordel.

Year published

1992

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

subgen.

Canonical form

Entoloma subgen. Claudopus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Entolomataceae

Genus

Entoloma

Subordinates

Synonyms

Claudopus Gillet 1876

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Podocarpus spicatus R.Br. ex Mirb. 1825

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Claudopus Gillet 1876

Notes

Entoloma-like mushrooms (small, delicate, saprobic, characterised by pink, angular spores) with eccentric, lateral, or no stipe. The single New Zealand species is known also from the Northern Hemisphere.

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Claudopus Gillet 1876

Description

Pileus excentric, lateral, or resupinate ; gills more or less decurrent ; stem very short or absent; spores salmon-colour.

The species are minute, distinguished by the excentric or resupinate pileus, rudimentary or obsolete stem, and salmon-coloured spores. Agreeing in structure with the simplest forms of Pleurotus, which differ in the white spores. Growing on dead wood, herbaceous stems, &c.