Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883

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Name scientific

Laccaria Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5 12 370 (1883)

Preferred name

Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Berk. & Broome

Authors

Berk. & Broome

Publication place

Berkeley, M.J.; Broome, C.E. 1883: Notices of British fungi [no. 1989-2027]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 370-374.

Year published

1883

Publication page

370

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Laccaria

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hydnangiaceae

Genus

Laccaria

Subordinates

Synonyms

Russuliopsis J. Schröt. 1889

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has mycorrhizal host

Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Poole

Dickie, I.A.; Bolstridge, N.; Cooper, J.A.; Peltzer, D.A. (2010)

has mycorrhizal host

Nothofagus

Dickie, I.A.; Richardson, S.J.; Wiser, S.K. (2009)

has host

Nothofagus

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2000)

has host

Coprosma

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cupressus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cupressus macrocarpa Gordon

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Eucalyptus

PDD (6 records from [Not available].)

has host

Fuscospora solandri

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Hydrangea

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Kunzea

PDD (13 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Kunzea linearis (Kirk) de Lange & Toelken 2014

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Kunzea robusta de Lange & Toelken 2014

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Larix

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Melaleuca L. 1767

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Myrtaceae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagaceae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (21 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus cliffortioides

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (23 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (9 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Poole

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Populus

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Populus tremula L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudotsuga

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Quercus robur L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883

Notes

Small fungi the size of a one or two dollar coin with a flattish cap that is usually either pink or violet, always on soil. The stem is central and fibrous, with no ring. They have thick and quite widely spaced gills which are flesh pink or violaceous and in older specimens are covered in white spores. Spore print white.

Laccaria is well represented in New Zealand with 12 species, several of these are thought to be exotic.

Laccaria species are ectomycorrhizal and the indigenous species all occur with Nothofagus, Leptospermum or Kunzea, but unlike most of the other fungi that live with specific trees, this family are thought to be able to survive also by living on leaf litter as saprotrophs. The introduced species are found with pines, oaks, birch and a number of other introduced species. Where they occur they are often in big troops of several dozen fruit bodies.

Notes

A genus of small mushrooms, common throughout New Zealand. Ectomycorrhizal, the genus includes some 'early succession' species found in nurseries and disturbed sites. The mushrooms are either brownish or purplish in colour, with a waxy feel to the gills. The spores have spine-like ornamentations which are amyloid in Meltzer's reagent.

Fourteen species have been reported from New Zealand, but there is doubt about the true dentity of some of the New Zealand taxa. Only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi.

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883

Description

Pileus thin, regular; gills adnate, white, becoming mealy with the spores; stem central, externally fibrous; spores white, globose, minutely warted.

Allied to Clitocybe, under which genus the species of Laccaria were at one time included. Characterized by the broadly adnate gills, which become powdered at maturity with the large white spherical warted spores. Growing on the ground.

Stevenson, G. 1964: The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.

Laccaria Berk. & Broome 1883

Description

The thick mealy gills and echinate non-amyloid spores are characters by which the members of this genus are readily distinguished. However, the size and shape of spores, which is so constant a feature of the species of other genera, is not necessarily so for the species of Laccaria.