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Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]

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Massee
Massee
Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.
1899
1898
300
ICN
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
NZ holotype
species
Flammula brunnea
On logs, New Zealand, Colenso.b 668, holotype K(M)

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Hymenogasteraceae
Flammula
brunnea

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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]

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 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]

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.
New Zealand.
On logs.
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.

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Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Anon.
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula brunnea Massee (1899) [1898]
Horak, E. (1971)
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Johnston, P.R. (2010)
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula brunnea Massee (1899) [1898]
Massee, G.E. (1899)
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula brunnea Massee (1899) [1898]
Pegler, D.N. (1965)
Flammula brunnea Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula brunnea Massee (1899) [1898]
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Hypholoma brunneum (Massee) D.A. Reid 1956

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typification
On logs, New Zealand, Colenso.b 668, holotype K(M)

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scientific name
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1 January 2001
26 December 2024
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