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Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak 1973

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

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Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Hygrophoraceae
Gliophorus
lilacipes

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

Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak 1973

Holotype (PDD 27097); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 69/325): 'Track to Mt. Luxmore, Lake Te Anau, Fjordland, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 9.IV.1969'. - Herb. HK. ZT 68/28: 'Nelson Creek, Kopara, Ngahere, Prov. Westcoast, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 16.I.1968'.
Pileus 15-45 mm diam., hemispherical when young later becoming plano-convex, aged specimen broadly umbilicate, deep green-blue fading to blue-brown or greenish-blue, darker at the centre, glutinous, margin striated, hygrophanous, glabrous. Lamellae broadly adnate to decurrent, lilac-blue or greenish-bluish, fading, distant; gill edge with gelatinized, grey coloured thread. Stipe 20-60 x 2-5 mm, cylindric, equal to attenuated towards the lilac apex, yellowish or ochraceous at the base, glutinous, hollow, single. Context: deep lilac at the upper portions of the stipe, reddish on drying. Taste and odor not distinctive. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - orange to pink; NH3 and HCl- negative. Spores 4.5-6 x 3-4.5 µm, ovoid, smooth, inamyloid. basidia 25-35 x 5 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia forming a sterile gill edge, consisting of cylindric cells densely interwoven and branched at the tips, strongly gelatinized and forming the glutinous thread, 2-6 µm diam. Epicutis of repent or suberect, cylindric gelatinized hyphae (2-7 µm diam.), occasionally branched at the free ends, forming an ixocutis. Clamp connections present.
On soil in Nothofagus forest with Dacrydium, Weinmannia, etc. New Zealand.
Pileo 15-45 mm lato, ex hemisphaerico plano-convexo, aetate umbilicato, glauco vel azureoviridi, glutinoso, striato. Lamellis decurrent bus, glaucis vel lilaceis, filo glutinoso instructis. Stipite 20-60 x 2-5 mm, cylindrico, apicaliter lilaceo, basim versus ochraceo, glutinoso, cavo. Sporis 4.5-6 x 3-4.5 µm, ovatis. Cheilocystidiis gelatinosis ramificatis, 2-5 µm latis. Epicute ex hyphis gelatinosis hyalinis repentibusque cutem formantibus. Septis fibulatis. Ad terram in silvis nothofagineis. Novazelandia.
Aging and drying change the colours of this beautiful polychromous species and one is puzzled to see many different shades and combinations of its typical colours. However, the lilac-blue tints at the upper part of the stipe and the relatively small spores are distinctive characters for its identification.
Holotypus (PDD 27097): 'Mt. Luxmore, Lake Te Anau, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 9.IV.1969'.
Horak, E. 1990: Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). New Zealand Journal of Botany 28(3): 255-306.

Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak 1973

SPECIMENS: NZ: NA, Omahuta, Kauri Reserve, ZT 529; Waitakere Ranges, Lucy Cranwell Track, Herb. McNabb, No.6 (PDD); LBI, Thumb Track, ZT 974. - G, Urewera N. P., Ngamoko Track, ZT 625. - WL, Ahaura, Nelson Creek, Kopara, ZT 68/28.
Pileus -45 mm, hemispherical becoming planoconvex, broadly umbilicate in aged specimens brilliant green-blue, fading to blue-brown or greenish blue, darker at centre; glutinous, margin striate, hygrophanous, glabrous. - Lamellae 8-14 (1 -3) distant, broadly adnate to decurrent; lilac-blue or pale green-blue, fading with age, edges concolorous with gelatinised, grey thread. - Stipe 20-60 x 25 mm, cylindrical, equal to attenuated towards apex; lilac to pale blue above, yellowish or ochraceous at base; glutinous, hollow, single. - Context brilliant lilac in upper portion of stipe, yellow-orange in base, reddish on drying. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - orange to pink; HCI, NH3 - negative. Spores 5-7 x 3-4um, ovoid. - Basidia 25-45 x 5-6 um, 4-spored. - Cheilocystidia forming sterile edge, composed of cylindrical, densely interwoven hyphae (2-6 um diam.), occasionally branched at tips, membrane strongly gelatinised. -Pileipellis an ixocutis of repent to suberect, cylindrical hyphae (27 um diam.), sometimes with branched tips, membranes strongly gelatinised, with plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present (P1. 1, Fig. 6).
DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA, G, WL, SL).
ECOLOGY: Common; saprobic on soil among litter in broadleaved-conifer forests Nothofagus Leptospermum, Weinmannia, Dacrydium, Agathis), occasionally also on rotten wood or on debris of tree fems. January-June.

ICON.: Stevenson (1962: pl.8, fig.1: 3 basidiomes on right side, as "H. viridis"); Horak (1973: 178); Taylor (1981: no. 44, as "G. versicolor").

TYPE: NZ: SL, Te Anau, track to Mt Luxmore under Nothofagus menziesii, N. solandri var, cliffortioides, Dacrydium cupressinum, Weinmannia racemosa), 9 iv 1969, Horak, PDD 27097.

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Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak 1973
Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak 1973
Anon.
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Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak (1973)
Hitchmough, R. (compiler) (2002)
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Horak, E. (1973)
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Horak, E. (1990)
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Lodge, D.J.; Padamsee, M. et al. (2013)
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Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak (1973)
Pennycook, S.R. (2004)
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Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
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Ridley, G.S.; Taylor, G.M. (1997)
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Segedin, B.P. (1987)
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Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
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Stevenson, G. (1963)
Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak 1973
Gliophorus lilacipes E. Horak (1973)
Taylor, G.M. (1981)
Hygrocybe lilacipes (E. Horak) Boertm. 2002
Hygrocybe lilacipes (E. Horak) Boertm. (2002)
Boertmann, D. (2002)

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Bay of Plenty
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Buller
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Fiordland
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Nelson
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Northland
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Rangitikei
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Taupo
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Wairarapa
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