Entoloma sericeum Quél. 1872

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Name scientific

Entoloma sericeum Quél., Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard, 2e Sér. 5 119 (1872)

Preferred name

Entoloma sericeum Quél. 1872

Taxonomy reference

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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Horak, E. (2008)

Nomenclature

Original authors

Quél.

Authors

Quél.

Publication place

Quélet, L. 1872: Les champignons du Jura et des Vosges. Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation de Montbéliard 5: 43-332.

Year published

1872

Publication page

119

Orthography

as 'sericeus'

Nomenclatural status

replacement, replacement name

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Entoloma sericeum Quél. 1872

Based on

Agaricus sericeus Bull. 1789

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Entoloma sericeum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Entolomataceae

Genus

Entoloma

Species

sericeum

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Silky Pinkgill

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Cyathea dealbata (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Fuscospora fusca

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Horak, E. 1973: Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. 43.

Entoloma congregatum G. Stev. 1962

Collections Examined

Holotype (K): 'Queens Gardens, Nelson, N.Z; leg. Read, 30.V.1956'.

Description

'Pileus 30-55 mm diam., hemispherical or broadly conical at first, then becoming plane, deep olivaceous, waxy, moist, drying subfibrillose. Gills adnate, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, creamy becoming pink. Stipe 50-70 x 7,.5-10 mm, creamy to light fawn, silky striate, hollow, rather brittle. Context thin, whitish to olive brown'.
Spores 7.5-11 x 7-8.5 µm, 5-6-sided. Basidia 30-40 x 12 µm 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (7-14 µm diam.), membrane hyaline, not gelatinized, with yellow (in KOH) plasmatic and epimembranous pigment, lactifers present. Clamp connections abundant.

Habitat

On Soil. New Zealand.

Illustrations

Stevenson 1962: 1.c.

Notes

The above description of microscopic characters is based on a study of the type material. Further collections are required to settle the taxonomic position of this species which belongs probably to the introduced fungi.

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Entoloma congregatum G. Stev. 1962

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Two other Stevenson collections at K, GS 660 and GS 1040.

Stevenson, G. 1962: The Agaricales of New Zealand: III. Kew Bulletin 16(2): 227–237.

Entoloma congregatum G. Stev. 1962

Description

Pileus 3-5 cm. diam., deep olivaceous, hemispherical or broadly conical at first, then becoming plane, waxy, moist, drying sub-fibrillose; flesh thin, whitish to olive-brown. Gills adnate, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, creamy becoming pink. Stipe 5-7 x 0.75-1 cm., creamy to light fawn, hollow, rather brittle, silky-striate. Spores angled, 8 x 10um; print dark-pink; no cystidia.

Habitat

HABITAT: rooting in leaf-mould in groups under native and exotic trees, Levin, 18.6.1949, Stevenson; and Nelson, 18.4.1959 & 30.5. 1956, D. Read.

Latin

Pileus 3-5 cm. diam., atro-olivaceus, primo hemisphaericus vel late conicus, demum explanatus, ceraceus, humidus, exsiccando subfibrillosus; caro tenui, ex albida olivacea. Lamellae adnatae, subdistantes, aliae longae aliae breviores intercalatae, e cremeo roseolae. Stipes 5-7 x 0.75-1 cm., e cremeo dilute hinnuleus, sericeo-striatus, cavus, subfragilis. Sporae 8-10um, angulatae, in cumulo obscure roseae. Cystidia nulla.

Typification

Stevenson 1108