Hygrocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

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Name scientific

Hygrocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm., Führer Pilzk. 26 (1871)

Preferred name

Hygrocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Fr.) P. Kumm.

Original authors

Fr.

Combination authors

P. Kumm.

Publication place

Kummer, P. 1871: Der Führer in die Pilzkunde. C. Luppe.

Year published

1871

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hygrocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Hygrocybe

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hygrophoraceae

Genus

Hygrocybe

Subordinates

Synonyms

Bertrandia R. Heim 1936

Associations

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has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Crassula L. 1753

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea medullaris (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyatheales

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum ericoides

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Sequoia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Sequoiadendron

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Neobarya agaricicola (Berk.) Samuels & Lowen 2007

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Bertrandia R. Heim 1936

Notes

One species in New Zealand, also widely distributed in tropical Africa and Asia. In New Zealand most commonly found in the North Island or the northern part of the West Coast. Saprobic.

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Hygrocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Notes

Hygrocybe is one of the wax-gill mushrooms, a group of small, brightly-coloured, saprobic, soil-inhabiting fungi which have brittle flesh with a waxy feel when crushed between the fingers. The main genera of wax-gills are Hygrophorus, Humidicutis, Hygrocybe and Gliophorus. Gliophorus is recognised by the thick glutinous coating over the surface, the caps of Humidicutis are characteristically deeply split at the sides, the other genera distinguished on the basis of microscopic features of hyphae in the gills and the cap. Gills broadly attached to stalk or extending down the stalk, no ring on stalk. Spore print white.

There are more than 20 species reported from New Zealand, most indigenous, but a few found in urbans areas that appear to match Northern Hemisphere species are thought to be introduced exotics.

Notes

Wax-gills saprobic on soil and litter. Included in Hygrocybe by some authors. Cap viscid when moist, stipe viscis or dry, pileipellis a cutis.

More than 20 species have been reported from New Zealand, only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi.