Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

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Name scientific

Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

Preferred name

Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Berk.

Original authors

Berk.

Publication place

Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Year published

1855

Publication page

192

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Cyathus colensoi

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Nidulariaceae

Genus

Cyathus

Species

colensoi

Descriptions

Cunningham, G.H. 1924: A revision of the New Zealand Nidulariales, or "birds-nest fungi". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 55: 59-66.

Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

Collections Examined

W. Colenso, Dannevirke (type), on ground in a garden.

Description

Peridia campanulate, up to 7 mm. high, 6 mm. wide at the mouth, tapering abruptly to short and slender stipe which about. 1 mm. diam.; exterior from pallid-grey to bay-brown, finely tomentose, even, interior lead-coloured, smooth, somewhat shining; mouth erect, in old specimens slightly recurved, margin entire, even. Peridiola lenticular, 2 mm. diam., black; tunics thin, white. Spores variable in shape and size, elliptical when 10-12 X 8-10 mmm., or subglobose when 9-12 mmm. diam.

Distribution

Distribution.-Australia; Dannevirke, N.Z. : rare.

Habitat

Habitat.-Growing crowded or caespitose on dead wood on the ground.

Notes

This species somewhat resembles C. Olla, but may be distinguished by the smaller differently shaped peridia, smaller peridiola, and more globose spores.

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

Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

Notes

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

Zhao, R.-L.; Jeewon, R.; Desjardin, D. E.; Soytong, K.; Hyde, K. D. 2007: Ribosomal DNA phylogenies of Cyathus: Is the current infrageneric classification appropriate?. Mycologia 99(3): 385-395.

Cyathus colensoi Berk. 1855

Notes

Specimen from India accepted as C. colensoi (GenBank DQ463344, ex DAOM 299432), based on identification by H.J. Brodie. Note that da Cruz et al. 2023 cited this incorrectly as the type spcimen.