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Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855

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Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855

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Berk.
Berk.
1855
173
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Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
NZ holotype
species
Agaricus colensoi
On the ground, amongst sand and on scraps of wood, wet logs, etc., Ngaawapurua, [New Zealand] Colenso b 523 holotype K(M) ?

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colensoi

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Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855

Agaricus (Omphalia) Colensoi, Berk.; pusillus, pileo tenui umbilicato glabro, margine involute, stipite graeili furfuraceo glabrescente, lamellis adnato-decurrentibus. HAB . On the ground, amongst sand and on scraps of wood, wet logs, etc., Ngaawapurua, Colenso. White. Pileus an inch or more across, smooth, minutely striate all over when dry, deeply umbilicate; margin involute. Stem 1/2-3/4 of an inch high, not a line thick, attenuated downwards, furfuraceous, at length smooth. Gills moderately broad, adnato-decurrent. The nearest ally of this species is probably A. pyxidatus.

Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

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Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
Agaricus colensoi Berk. (1855)
Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
Agaricus colensoi Berk. (1855)
Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
Agaricus colensoi Berk. (1855)
Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
Agaricus colensoi Berk. 1855
Agaricus colensoi Berk. (1855)

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typification
On the ground, amongst sand and on scraps of wood, wet logs, etc., Ngaawapurua, [New Zealand] Colenso b 523 holotype K(M) ?
taxonomic status
Horak's synonymy with Conchomyces bursiformis is not supported by the protologue. Micro-details of the holotype are needed [JAC]

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1 January 2001
17 May 2023
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