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Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973

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E. Horak
E. Horak
1973
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Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
NZ holotype (PDD 27015)
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Entoloma acuticystidiosum

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acuticystidiosum

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Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973

Holotype (PDD 27015); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/581): 'Lake Waikaremoana, Tawa Track, Urewera N.P., N.Z.; leg. Horak, 24.VI.1968'.
Pileus 10-25 mm diam., hemispherical, becoming convex, aged carpophores pulvinate and often depressed or subconcave at the centre, margin incurved. brown, covered by soot-brown fibrils and scales, dry, neither striate nor hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-16, l 1-3) adnate-emarginate, whitish when young, becoming grey-pink, gill edge concolorous, not fimbriate. Stipe 20-40 x 2-3 mm, cylindrical, often curved near the base, grey or purplish brown, densely covered by concolorous dots at least near the apex, dry, hollow, solitary or in clusters. Context light brown. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores 12-14 x 11-13 µm, 5-6-sided, with prominent knobs. Basidia 45-52 x 10 µm. 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 70-110 x 10-20 µm, awl-shaped, membrane thin-walled, hyaline. pleurocystidia none. Caulocystidia 60-100 x 10µm, clavate, often curved. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical, repent or suberect hyphae (10-15 µm diam.), membrane thin-walled, with conspicuous, brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections present.
On soil in forests (under Dacrydium, Beilschmiedia, Elaeocarpus, Dicksonia, etc.). New Zealand.
Pileo 10-25 mm lato, ex hemisphaerico pulvinato, subdepresso, brunneo, squamis et fibrillis fuligineis obtecto, sicco, haud striato Lamellis emarginato-adnatis, albidis postea griseo-roseis, acie concolori instructis. Stipite 20-40 x 2-3 mm, cylindraceo, sicco, griseo vel porphyreo, apicem versus pruinoso, cavo. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 12-14 x 11-13 µm, 5-6-angulatis, sasidiis 4-sporigcris. Cheilocystidiis 7-110 x 10-20µm, tenui-tunicatis, haud coloratis, pleurocystidiis nullis. Caulocystidiis 60-100 x l0 µm, clavatis. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis cutem formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmaticoque instructis. Hyphis fibuligeris. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia.
This species is distinguished by its large, complex spores, awl-shaped cheilocystidia, presence of conspicuous caulocystidia and scaly pileus. Macroscopically it resembles E. squamiferum Hk. (see discussion there).
Holotypus (PDD 27015): 'Lake Waikaremoana, Urewera N.P., N.Z.; leg. Horak, 24.VI.1968'.

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Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak (1973)
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak (1973)

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Entoloma acuticystidiosum E. Horak 1973
New Zealand
Coromandel

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1 January 2000
19 April 2012
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