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Gliophorus graminicolor E. Horak 1973

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Young 1999

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E. Horak
E. Horak
1973
176
ICN
Gliophorus graminicolor E. Horak 1973
NZ holotype
species
Gliophorus graminicolor
Holotype (PDD 27096); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/201): 'Red Jack Valley, Ngahere, Prov. Westcoast, New Zealand; leg. Horak, 21.111.1968'. - Herb. HK.

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graminicolor

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Gliophorus graminicolor E. Horak 1973

Holotype (PDD 27096); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/201): 'Red Jack valley, Ngahere, Prov. Westcoast, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 21.III.1960'. - Herb. HK. ZT 69/177: 'Track to Mt. Luxmore, Lake Te Anau, Fjordland, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 26.III.1969'.
Pileus 10-40 mm diam., hemispherical later becoming plano-convex to subumbilicate, grass green or moss green, paler towards the translucidly striated margin, glutinous. Lamellae broadly adnate to decurrent, whitish-greenish, with grey coloured gelatinized gill edge, distant. Stipe 25-70 x 2-5 mm, cylindric, apex concolorous with pileus, whitish to orange towards the base, glutinous throughout its entire length, glabrous, fistulose, single. Context greenish, turning pink on drying. Taste and odor unpleasant, like burnt hair. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH and HCl - negative. Spores 4.5-6 x 3-4 µm, ovoid, smooth, inamyloid. Basidia 25-35 x 5-6 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia conspicuous, forming a sterile gill edge, hyphae (1-3 µm diam.) with strongly gelatinized membranes. Cuticle consisting of cylindric, gelatinized, hyaline hyphae (1-5 µm diam.) forming an ixotrichodermium. Clamp connections present.
In soil amongst mosses under Nothofagus, Dacrydium, Podocarpus, Metrosideros, etc. New Zealand.
Pileo 10-40 mm lato, e convexo subumbilicato, viridi, glutinoso, striato. Lamellis decurrent bus, albido-viridibus, acie concolori glutinosaque instructis. stipite 25-70 x 2-5 mm, cylindrico, pileo concolori glutinoso. Odore ingrato. Sporis 4.5-6 x 3 –4 µm, ovoideis. Cheilocystidiis praesentibus. Epicute ex hyphis gelatinosis ixotrichodermium formantibus. Septis fibulatis. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia.
For discussion see G. viridis (Stev.) (39).
Holotypus (PDD 27096): 'Red Jack Valley, Ngahere, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 21.III.1968'.

Gliophorus graminicolor E. Horak 1973

SPECIMEN: NZ: SL, Te Anau, track to Mt Luxmore, under Nothofagus menziesii, N. solandri var.cliffortioides (and Podocarpus-Dacrydium), ZT 69/177.
Pileus - 40 mm, hemispherical later becoming planoconvex to subumbilicate; grass green or moss green, paler towards translucently striate margin; glutinous. - Lamellae 9-14 (1-3) distant, broadly adnate to subdecurrent;, white with green tinge, with grey coloured, gelatinised edges. -Stipe 25-70 x 2-5 mm, cylindrical. equal; apex concolorous with pileus, whitish or orange towards base; glutinous, glabrous when dry, fistulose, single. –Context greenish turning pink on drying. - Odour and taste unpleasant, like burnt hair. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH, HCI - negative. Spores 4.5-6 x 3-4 um ovoid. - Basidia 25-35 x 5-6 um, 4-spored. - Cheilocystidia conspicuous, composed of cylindrical hyphae (1-3 um diam.) with strongly gelatinised membranes. - Pileipellis an ixocutis of cylindrical, hyaline hyphae (1-5 um diam.), membranes strongly gelatinised, with plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 6).

DISTRIBUTION: NZ: (WL, SL).

 

ICON.: Horak(1973: 176); Taylor(1970: back cover, as “H. viridis”); Taylor (1981:No.42, as "H. viridis").

TYPE: NZ: WL, Ngahere, Red Jack Valley, under Dacrydium cupressinum, Metrosideros umbellata, Quintinia sp., 21 iii 1968, Horak, PDD 27096.

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Gliophorus graminicolor E. Horak 1973
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taxonomic status
Young's assertion that G. pallidus is the same as G. graminicolor is not supported by sequence data. In addition G. graminicolor sensu Young/Australia is also a different taxon to the original NZ species. H. batesii is the correct name for the Australian taxon [JAC]
typification
Holotype (PDD 27096); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/201): 'Red Jack Valley, Ngahere, Prov. Westcoast, New Zealand; leg. Horak, 21.111.1968'. - Herb. HK.

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1 January 2000
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