Gliophorus fumosogriseus E. Horak 1990
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Gliophorus fumosogriseus E. Horak 1990
Spores 5.5-7 x 4-4.5 um, ovoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid. - Basidia 30-40 x 5-6 um, 4-spored, rarely with 2 sterigmata, with clamp connection at basal septum. - Cheilo- and pleurocystidia absent - Pileipellis an ixocutis of densely interwoven, 2 cylindrical hyphae (1-4 um diam.), membrane strongly gelatinised, hyaline, with grey plasmatic pigment, septa usually lacking clamp connections.
ECOLOGY: Rare; saprobic on soil among litter in mixed broadleaved-conifer forest (Weinmannia, Metrosideros, Dacrydium, Dicksonia). March.
ETYMOLOGY: fumosus = sooty; griseus = grey.
The strongly gelatinised pileus and stipe clearly indicate that this grey to sooty coloured species has its taxonomical position in Gliophorus. Its identification is easy because G. fumosogriseus is the only New Zealand Gliophorus with adnate-emarginate lamellae in combination with fuliginous colours on the basidiomes.
TYPE: NZ: WL, Copland River Valley, Karangarua, 7 iii 1983, Horak, PDD 27229.