Protubera Möller 1895

Details

Name scientific

Protubera Möller, Bras. Pilzbl. 10, 145 (1895)

Preferred name

Protubera Möller 1895

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

Möller

Original authors

Möller

Publication place

Möller, F.A.G.J. (ed) 1895: Brasilische Pilzblumen. Gustav Fischer.

Year published

1895

Publication page

10, 145

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Protubera Möller 1895

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Protubera

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Phallales

Family

Protophallaceae

Genus

Protubera

Subordinates

Synonyms

Kobayasia S. Imai & A. Kawam. 1958

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Nothofagus cunninghamii

PDD (1 records from Australia.)

has host

Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb.

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Nothofagus

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Nothofagus cliffortioides

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Protubera Möller 1895

Notes

A stinkhorn in which the outer ‘egg’ layer remains more or less intact. With very robust rhizomorphs extending from the base, and with a layer of elongate, gelatinous locules surrounding the internal mass of spores. Resembles the unopened ‘eggs’ of Ileodictyon.

Three species have been reported from New Zealand. P. nothofagi differs from the species illustrated below in having a wall about 1 mm thick and an outer layer which easily peels away.

Notes

A stinkhorn in which the outer 'egg' layer remains more or less intact. With very robust rhizimorphs extending from the base, and with layer of elongate, gelatinous locules surrounding the internal mass of spores.

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

Castellano, M.A.; Beever, R.E. 1994: Truffle-like Basidiomycotina of New Zealand: Gallacea, Hysterangium, Phallobata, and Protubera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 32(3): 305-328.

Protubera Möller 1895

Description

Basidiomata globose to depressed. Peridium thick and gelatinised, not easily separable from gleba, white, pale pink to pale red, surface glabrous to finely tomentose, occasionally cerebriform. Gleba pale grey olive to dark greyish yellow brown, with elongate empty locules. Odour nil to sharply putrid. Basidia in a euhymenium, hyaline, thin-walled, 68-spored. Spores ellipsoid, statismosporic, orthotropic, smooth, lacking an utricle. Sterigmal attachment inconspicuous to slight. In KOH hyaline to pale green singly. No distinctive reactions to Melzer's reagent. Development angiocarpic, hypogeous to epigeous.

Notes

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin protuberare, to swell out, presumably referring to the protuberance-like form of the indehiscent sporocarp.
REMARKS: Protubera is related to the Clathraceae by its small, smooth spores and sutures which divide the peridium into sections. The genus is widely distributed, having been recorded from North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The very gelatinous nature of P. parvispora and P. hautuensis makes peridial details of these species difficult to discern in KOH mounts of heat-dried specimens.

Typification

TYPE SPECIES: Protubera maracuja Moller.