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Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973

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E. Horak
E. Horak
1973
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Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
NZ holotype (PDD 27030)
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Entoloma corneum

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Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973

Holotype (PDD 27030); Isotype (Herb. HK. Zl68/656): 'Kauaeranga Valley, Coromandel Peninsula, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 9.VII.1968'.
Pileus 5-10 mm diam., hemispherical at first becoming convex, umbo lacking, brown or fuliginous, densely covered especially near the centre by small scaly squamules, squamules appressed towards the striate margin, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 6-8, l -3) adnate or emarginate, beige-pink, with concolorous fimbriate gill edge. Stipe 15-25 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical, sometimes slightly attenuated upwards, brownish, pruinate at the apex, glabrous towards the base, dry, fistulose, fragile. Context brownish. Odor and taste slightly farinaceous.
Spores 12-15 x 8.5-10 µm, 6-sided. Basidia 36-42 x 15 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 50-80 x 10-18 µm, fusoid or ampulliform, ventricose with long tapering neck, membrane hyaline, thin-walled. Pleurocystidia none. Caulocystidia 45-65 x 6-11 µm, like cheilocystidia but often capitate. Cuticle a palisade consisting of erect, short cylindrical, not gelatinized hyphae (6-12µm diam.), with brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections absent.
On soil h forests (under Pittosporum spp., Knightia exelsa, Cyathea spp.). New Zealand.
Pileo 5-10 mm lato, hemisphaerico vel convexo, ex obscure brunneo fuligineo, squamis concoloribus squarrosis vel adpressis obtecto, sicco, marginem versus striato. Lamellis adnato-emarginatis brunneo-roseis, acie concolori, haud fimbriata instructis. Stipite 15-25 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindraceo vel attenuato apicem versus, pileo concolori, glabro vel subpruinato, sicco, fistuloso. Odore saporeque vix farinaceo. Sporis 12-15 x 8.5-10 µm, 6-angulatis. Basidia 4-sporigera. Cheilocystidiis 50-80 x 10-18 µm, fusoideis vel lageniformibus, hyalinis. Pleurocystidiis nullis. Caulocystidiis 45-65 x 6-11 µm, fusoideo-capitatis hyalinisque. Epicute ex hyphis erectis cylindraceis palisadam formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmaticoque instructis. Septis defibulatis Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia.
Holotypus (PDD 27030): Coromandel Peninsula, N.Z; leg. Horak, 9.VII.1968'.

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Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
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Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma corneum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973

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Entoloma corneum E. Horak 1973
New Zealand
Coromandel

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1cb188e3-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
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1 January 2000
29 April 2008
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