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Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

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Berk. & Broome
Berk. & Broome
1871
562
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Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
SriLanka
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Hygrophorus multicolor

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multicolor

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Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

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.

Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871

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

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Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome (1871)

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Hygrophorus multicolor Berk. & Broome 1871
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1 January 2001
23 April 2002
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