Pluteus Fr. 1836

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Name scientific

Pluteus Fr. 1836

Preferred name

Pluteus Fr. 1836

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

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Original authors

Fr.

Authors

Fr.

Publication place

Fries, E.M. 1836: Floram Scanicam. Palmblad, Sebell & C.

Year published

1836

Publication page

338

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pluteus Fr. 1836

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pluteus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Pluteaceae

Genus

Pluteus

Subordinates

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has substrate

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

Hood, I. A.; Beets, P. N. et al. (2008)

has host

Nothofagus

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

has host

Abies

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Agathis australis (D.Don) Lindl.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Kirk

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Coprosma areolata Cheeseman

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Cortaderia

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Fitchia Hook.f. 1845

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Laurelia novae-zelandiae A.Cunn.

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Melicytus

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (6 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (3 records from [Not available].)

has host

Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.

PDD (5 records from [Not available].)

has host

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

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Rhododendron

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Pluteus Fr. 1836

Notes

Spore print pink. Almost always on wood (the endemic P. terricola is found on soil), usually on large pieces of wood and almost always seen as a single fruiting body. Cap velvety, dark brown or with dark brown patches. Gills pinkish, very fine, free. Stalk without a ring.

There are about 15 species in New Zealand, most confined to native forestsd, but one or two possibly introduced.

The beautiful, darkly felted caps and pink spores make these mushrooms are difficult to confuse with any other genus. A few species, such as P. inconspicuus, are small but these are rarely likely to be encountered.

Notes

Saprobic on wood, typically large pieces of wood. The medium-sized fruiting bodies often found as solitary specimens. Spores pink, the cap often dark and velvety, or wth velvety patches.

More than 10 species have been reported from New Zealand, although taxonomically poorly understood. 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.