Laccaria laccata sensu auct. NZ

Details

Name scientific

Laccaria laccata sensu auct. NZ

Preferred name

Laccaria laccata sensu auct. NZ

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Uncertain

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

auct. NZ

Original authors

auct. NZ

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Laccaria laccata sensu auct. NZ

Based on

Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Cooke 1884

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Laccaria laccata

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hydnangiaceae

Genus

Laccaria

Species

laccata

Synonyms

Agaricus laccatus sensu Colenso 1893 [1892]

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Pinus radiata D.Don

Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1985)

has mycorrhizal host

Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

Chu-Chou, M.; Grace, L.J. (1987)

has host

Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

De Roman, M.; Claveria, V.; De Miguel, A.M. (2005)

has host

Betula pendula Roth

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

Descriptions

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Laccaria laccata sensu auct. NZ

Notes

All species of this genus occurring in New Zealand are being studied by McNabb.

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

Laccaria laccata sensu auct. NZ

Description

Pileus thin, convex., then expanded, often more or less wavy and irregular, umbilicate, even, hygrophanous, very minutely and densely squamulose, due to the breaking-up of the cuticle, clear violet or rich brown when moist, whitish when dry, 2-6 cm. across ; gills broadly adnate, distant, coloured like the pileus, at length white and mealy with the spores, thick; spores globose, warted, 8-9 µ, diameter; stem 5-9 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, equal, fibrous, tough, coloured like the pileus, stuffed.

Distribution

Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, Asia, Africa, Europe, United States.

Habitat

On the ground, in woods.

Notes

An exceedingly variable, at the same time very marked and distinct, fungus. In some specimens the pileus is clear violet or amethyst when moist, in others a deep rich brown ; a white form has also been described. It has been proposed to raise these different coloured specimens to specific rank, but as colour is the only distinctive factor this proposal has not been generally followed. The stem and gills are always coloured like the pileus. Its distinctive features are the umbilicate pileus minutely broken up into squamules and the mealy gills.