Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821

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Name scientific

Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821

Preferred name

Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Pers.) Gray

Original authors

Pers.

Combination authors

Gray

Publication place

Gray, S.F. 1821: A Natural Arrangement of British Plants. 1. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy.

Year published

1821

Publication page

601

Nomenclatural status

conserved

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Sanctioning reference

Fries, E.M. 1821: Systema Mycologicum. 1. Ex Officina Berlingiana.

Sanctioning page(s)

9, 19

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Lepiota

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Verrucosporaceae

Genus

Lepiota

Subordinates

Synonyms

Lepiotula (Maire) Locq. ex E. Horak 1968

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Agathis australis (D.Don) Lindl.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Asplenium bulbiferum G.Forst.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Citrus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Coprosma rhamnoides A.Cunn.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea dealbata (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyathea medullaris (G.Forst.) Sw.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cyatheales

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (A.Rich.) de Laub.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dicksonia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Ficus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Fortunella

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Humulus lupulus L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Knightia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Leptospermum ericoides

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Malus domestica

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Myrtaceae

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus cliffortioides

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst. var. solandri

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Pinus

PDD (4 records from [Not available].)

has host

Podocarpus dacrydioides

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Podocarpus totara D.Don

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Salix

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Sequoiadendron

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Verbena

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Weinmannia racemosa L.f.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821

Notes

Small, delicate, thin-fleshed mushrooms, always on soil, cap dry, with brown scale-like patches, white flesh becoming exposed as these break apart as the caps expand. Always with a ring on the narrow stalk, the ring sometimes becoming loose and detached. Gills white, free. Spore print white.

Although common in New Zealand forests, the genus is very poorly understood for New Zealand. Saprobes. Many species are poisonous.

Leucocoprinus is similar in structure and also has a detaching ring on the stalk, but this tropical genus is bright yellow and typically found in pot plants on very rich soil.

Notes

Saprobes on soil. A common and widespread genus in New Zealand, but poorly known taxonomically. Small, delicate mushrooms, the cap often pointed and with coarse, brown scales, the gills white and free, the stipe with a prominent ring.

Many species poisonous.

About 15 species have been reported from New Zealand, 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.

Lepiota (Pers.) Gray 1821

Description

Pileus regular, usually scaly; gills free from the stem, white or tinted; stem central, bearing a ring; spores white or dingy.

Free gills and a ring on the stem are the important features of the present genus. In some species the ring disappears soon after the pileus expands. On the ground.