Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke 1879

Details

Name scientific

Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke, Grevillea 8 54 (1879)

Preferred name

Hygrophoropsis umbriceps (Cooke) McNabb 1969

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.

Nomenclature

Authors

Cooke

Original authors

Cooke

Publication place

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Year published

1879

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke 1879

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Cantharellus umbriceps

Typification

TypeNew Zealand, On the ground. Maungaroa , BERGGREN, 138 (holotype, K)

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Cantharellales

Family

Cantharellaceae

Genus

Cantharellus

Species

umbriceps

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke 1879

Collections Examined

On the ground. Maungaroa (138).

Description

Pileus about an inch broad; stem two inches long, half an inch thick at the base, attenuated upwards; flesh tinged with orange; spores small, subglobose.

Latin

Pileo carnoso, molli, e convexo depresso, glabro, umbrino ; margine incurvo ; stipite solido, pallido, sursum attenuato ; lamellis subconfertis, dichotomis, aurantiacis.

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke 1879

Notes

This material (BERGGREN 138) undoubtedly belongs to Hygrophoropsis. The species was transferred to this genus by McNabb (1969).

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke 1879

Notes

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

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

Cantharellus umbriceps Cooke 1879

Description

Pileus fleshy, soft, subglobose, then expanding, then depressed, margin incurved, glabrous, umber, about 3 cm. diameter ; gills very narrow, thick, forked, not crowded, dingy-orange; stem about 4 cm. long and 1 cm. thick at the slightly swollen base, solid, white with a tinge of yellow; spores globose, 4 µ, diameter.

Distribution

Maungaroa, New Zealand.

Habitat

On the ground.

Notes

As the species was founded upon the examination of a single specimen, accompanied by a coloured drawing, it is probable that the size and some minor details given above may require modification.

McNabb, R.F.R. 1971: Some new and revised taxa of New Zealand Basidiomycetes (Fungi). New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(2): 355-370.