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Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797

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Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers., Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. 62 (1797)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

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Exotic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region
Anon
A species complex.

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(O.F. Müll.) Pers.
O.F. Müll.
Pers.
Persoon, C.H. 1797: Tentamen Dispositionis Methodicae Fungorum. P.P. Wolf.
1797
62
Fr.
ICN
Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. 1780
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Coprinus comatus

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Coprinaceae
Coprinus
comatus

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

Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797

Apparently introduced into New Zealand with exotic grass seeds, soil, dung, etc.
Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797

Pileus cylindrical, then campanulate, finally expanding and deliquescing, at first even; during growth and expansion the cuticle becomes torn into broad adpressed or loose scattered scales, cream-colour, interstices white and silky, 7-12 cm. .high; flesh white, thin except at the apex; gills almost free, about I cm. broad, crowded, white, then pinkish, at length black; spores almost black, elliptical, 13-18 x 7-8 µ; stem 18-16 cm. high, 1-2 cm. thick, subequal, white, even, hollow, more or less bulbous, bulb solid; ring movable on the stem, soon disappearing.
Northern Island, New Zealand. Australia, Europe, United States.
Amongst grass, in pastures, waste places near towns, &c. ; not on dung.
A large, fine species, growing in troops, readily distinguished by its large size and cylindrical form of the whitish shaggy pileus. One of the best and safest of edible fungi.

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Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. 1780
Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. (1780)
Fries, E.M. (1821)
Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. 1780
Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. (1780)
Müller, O.F. (1780)
Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. 1780
Agaricus comatus O.F. Müll. (1780)
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Bell, A.E. (1988)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Hall, I.R.; Buchanan, P.K.; Wang, Y.; Cole, A.L.J. (1998)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Holden. E.M. (2003)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Holden. E.M. (2003)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Hood, I.A.
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Horak, E. (1971)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Horne, D. (2000)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Ko, K.S.; Lim, Y.W.; Kim, Y.H.; Jung, H.S. (2001)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Massee, G.E. (1899)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Pennycook, S.R. (2004)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Persoon, C.H. (1797)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Ridley, G.S. (2004)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Ridley, G.S.; Horne, D. (2006)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Segedin, B.P. (1987)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Stevenson, G. (1994)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Taylor, G.M. (1968)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Taylor, G.M. (1970)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Taylor, G.M. (1981)
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. (1797)
Taylor, G.M. (1990)

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Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers. 1797
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taxonomic status
C. comatus is a species complex, New Zealand has representatives in (at least) one northern hemisphere clade, and a South American clade [JAC Feb. 2023]

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1cb184b7-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
1 January 2001
27 April 2007
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