Omphalina Quél. 1886

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Name scientific

Omphalina Quél. 1886

Preferred name

Omphalina Quél. 1886

Linked name

Omphalina Quél.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Quél.

Authors

Quél.

Publication place

Quélet, L. 1886: Enchiridion Fungorum.

Year published

1886

Publication page

Nomenclatural status

conserved

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Omphalina Quél. 1886

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Omphalina

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Omphalinaceae

Genus

Omphalina

Subordinates

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Sphagnum L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Omphalina Quél. 1886

Notes

Small, brightly coloured mushrooms with umbillicate cap and decurrent gills. Saprobic on soil. Spores white, smooth, nonamyloid. The Omphalina-like mushrooms found in sphagnum bogs are thought to be lichenised and are referred to Lichenomphalina.

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

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

Omphalina Quél. 1886

Description

The members of this genus are small fleshy fungi with decurrent gills which are sometimes thick and distant; spores are hyaline, non-amyloid and usually smooth; cystidia are normally absent, and if present are insignificant; the hymenophoral trama, in contrast to that of Clitocybe, consists of irregular hyphae often with thickened walls.