Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer

Details

Name scientific

Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer

Preferred name

Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer

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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Absent

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(DC.) Singer

Original authors

DC.

Combination authors

Singer

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Omphalotus olearius

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Omphalotaceae

Genus

Omphalotus

Species

olearius

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Acer

PDD (1 records from Canada.)

has host

Quercus

PDD (1 records from France.)

Descriptions

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

Panus incandescens Berk. & Broome 1883

Description

Entirely whitish or dingy; pileus varying from umbilicate to deeply funnel-shaped, glabrous, but very minutely wrinkled or virgate, margin persistently incurved, 4-10 cm. across, often very irregular in form; flesh thick at the disc, whitish, tough gills deeply decurrent and running as very fine lines almost to the base of the stem, thin, narrow, rather crowded; spores 7 x 4 µ; stem 2-4 cm. high, up to 8 mm. thick, slightly narrowed downwards.

Distribution

New Zealand. Australia.

Habitat

On logs, or on the ground, springing from buried wood.

Notes

Remarkable for being very luminous at night. Tufted and often irregular; variable in size.