Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

Details

Name scientific

Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11 562 (1871)

Preferred name

Humidicutis multicolor (Berk. & Broome) E. Horak 1990

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.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Berk. & Broome

Authors

Berk. & Broome

Publication place

Berkeley, M.J.; Broome, C.E. 1871: The fungi of Ceylon. (Hymenomycetes, from Agaricus to Cantharellus). Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 11: 494-567.

Year published

1871

Publication page

562

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

Type locality

SriLanka

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hygrophorus multicolor

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hygrophoraceae

Genus

Hygrophorus

Species

multicolor

Descriptions

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

Notes

Stevenson's description of this species is based on two different collections which we also have studied. Not only are the spore dimensions of the two collections widely different but we believe that neither of them can be identified with H. multicolor.

Stevenson, G. 1963: The Agaricales of New Zealand: IV. Kew Bulletin 16(3): 373–384.

Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

Description

Pileus 1.5-3.5 cm. diam., green to dark green, rarely blue, darker at centre, matt to finely fibrillose, campanulate to broadly hemispherical, becoming plane; flesh blue. Gills adnexed to free, or adnate with a decurrent tooth, moderately distant, green with yellow margins. Stipe 3-6 cm. X 3-6 mm., sky blue or greenish above, shading through yellow to orange at base, hollow, silky, smooth; flesh blue above, yellow to orange below. Spores 7-8 X 5-5.5 µm., ovoid, hyaline, print white. Basidia 35 X 6-7 µm., four spored.

Habitat

habitat: terrestrial under scrub and forest, Eastbourne, 4.6.1949; Wellington Botanic Garden, 26.5.1949 & 9.6.1949; Levin, 22.6.1958; all Stevenson.

Notes

Although the original description is rather meagre it gives these striking colour characteristics so that the writer refers her collection to this species. There is no specimen at Kew but there is a drawing showing a somewhat faded example. Spore dimensions were not given in the original description.