Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Flammula brunnea Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 300 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Hypholoma brunneum (Massee) D.A. Reid 1956

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

Massee

Original authors

Massee

Publication place

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

Year published

1899

Year on publication

1898

Publication page

300

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Flammula brunnea

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogasteraceae

Genus

Flammula

Species

brunnea

Descriptions

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

Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]

Notes

Flammula brunnea Massee (16,D) Figs 2, 3 = Hypholoma brunneum (Massee) Reid 1955=. Type material: COLENSO b 668.

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

Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]

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.

Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus subglobose, then expanding until almost plane, margin usually drooping, slightly umbonate, sometimes depressed round the umbo, 1-3 cm, across, even, glabrous, uniform dark-brown; flesh thin, pale greenish-yellow; gills adnexed, becoming almost or quite free as the pileus expands, crowded, rather broad, rusty-brown at maturity; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 µ, rusty; stem 3-7 cm. long, slender, almost equal, paler than the pileus, almost or quite smooth.

Distribution

New Zealand.

Habitat

On logs.

Notes

Sent to Kew by Colenso mixed with F. purpureo-nitens, from which it differs, as also from every other described species, by the dark-brown pileus and greenish-yellow flesh. Fasciculate.