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Gallacea Lloyd, Lycoperd. Australia 37 (1905)
Gallacea Lloyd 1905

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Lloyd
Lloyd
Lloyd, G.C. 1905: The Lycoperdaceae of Australia, New Zealand and Neighbouring Islands.
1905
37
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Gallacea Lloyd 1905
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Gallacea

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Hysterangiales
Gallaceaceae
Gallacea

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Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Gallacea Lloyd 1905

A truffle-like fungus characterised by the fruiting body having a gelatinous internal columella, minute anastomosing canals lined by spore-bearing cells and smooth, elliptical spores.

The three New Zealand species are all endemic, and ectomycorrhizal with beech and tea-tree.

Distinguished from Hysterangium because of the tendency for large schizogenous cavities to develop in the internal tissue, and the absence of an utricle (a loose outer covering) from the spores.

Truffle-like fungus with fruiting body with columella, spores smooth, elliptical. Distinguished from Hysterangium because of the absence of an utricle (loose outer covering) from the spore and the tendency for large schizogenous cavities to develop in the gleba.

Probably ectomycorrhizal with beech and tea-tree.

Three New Zealand species.

Castellano, M.A.; Beever, R.E. 1994: Truffle-like Basidiomycotina of New Zealand: Gallacea, Hysterangium, Phallobata, and Protubera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 32(3): 305-328.

Gallacea Lloyd 1905

Basidiomata large (to 10 cm), globose to subglobose, broadly obpyriform or irregularly lobed. Peridium thick (c. 500-1500 µm), white to pale yellow, pale µmk, violet, or purple, bruising µmkish brown to brown, occasionally separable from gleba. Gleba olive to brown, with more or less radially elongate locules partially filled with spores, often developing large (up to 2 cm) schizogenous cavities. Odour nil to acetylenic or sweetish putrid. Basidia in a euhymenium, hyaline, thin-walled, 4-6(-7)-spored. Subhymenium poorly developed to inconspicuous. Spores statismosporic, orthotropic to slightly heterotropic, smooth, ellipsoid to oblong, lacking an utricle, with a distinct sterigmal attachment, pale green, yellow olive, or pale olive brown, slightly dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent. Development angiocarpic, hypogeous to subepigeous.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin galla, the oak-apple (oak gall), referring to the resemblance of the basidioma to such galls.
REMARKS: Gallacea was erected by Lloyd to accommodate G. scleroderma, and G. avellana Pat. was subsequently described from New Caledonia (Patouillard 1910). Cunningham (1934) referred G. scleroderma to Hysterangium, but we prefer to retain Gallacea because of the absence of an utricle from the spore and the tendency for large schizogenous cavities to develop in the gleba, and refer two new taxa to the genus. Cunningham (1924) studied the development of G. scleroderma.
TYPE SPECIES: Gallacea scleroderma (Cooke) Lloyd.

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Gallacea Lloyd 1905
Gallacea Lloyd (1905)
Anon.
Gallacea Lloyd 1905
Gallacea Lloyd (1905)
Castellano, M.A.; Beever, R.E. (1994)
Gallacea Lloyd 1905
Gallacea Lloyd (1905)
Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; David, J.C.; Stalpers, J.A. (2001)
Hysterangiaceae E. Fisch. 1899
Gallacea Lloyd 1905
Gallacea Lloyd (1905)
Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008)
Gallaceaceae Locq. ex P.M. Kirk 2008
Gallacea Lloyd 1905
Gallacea Lloyd
Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008-)
Gallaceaceae Locq. ex P.M. Kirk 2008
Gallacea Lloyd 1905
Gallacea Lloyd (1905)
Lloyd, G.C. (1905)

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