[GS] Pileus 1-2 X 1-1.5 cm., buff to sordid, finely fibrillose, fan-shaped, sessile. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, creamy white, shallow, crowded. Spores 7 x 3um, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids 80-90 X 15-20 um, pseudo-amyloid, very thick-walled, encrusted with crystals, very abundant on gill-faces (Fig. 1/53, p. 10). Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae with clamp connections, covered by tufts of parallel thin-walled hyphae 3-8um diam., with conspicuous clamp connections. HABITAT: on fallen rotten wood, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson (type). [EH] = Hohenbuehelia nothofaginea. [JAC] Greta indicated a relationship between H. nothofagnea and H. podocarpinea, assuming host specificity. It is interesting therefore that Horak synonimised this with H. nothofaginea (with dark greyish brown cap), but retained H. podocapinea. The pileipellis is a removeable elastic pellicle (treated in KOH). A cream tomentum on the cap is extensive compared to other NZ species (except nothofaginea) but the material is very sparse. There are no metuloid cystidia elements in the pileipellis, and just a few gloeosphex cystidia, mostly devoid of apical mucilage but some amorphously crystaline. A section through the pileipellis shows a slightly pigmented layer below the pellicle. The gills are not crowded, compared say to H. podocarpinea. The gill edge is minutely fimbriate, perhaps tending to serrulate. Spores length=6.4–7.8µm (µ=7.0, σ=0.46), width=3.1–4.2µm (µ=3.7, σ=0.32), Q=1.6–2.2µm (µ=1.90, σ=0.16), n=20.

Hohenbuehelia tristis Stevenson (29 D) = Hohenbuehelia nothofaginea Stevenson

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Two packets in the type folder, with exactly the same collecting data on the K labels. However, inside one of the packets is a Greta Stevenson collection label with GS 210 as the original collecting number, the 210 changed to 211 at some later stage. This packet has lots of wood, some with what appear to be coriticiod fruiting bodies, but no obvious Hohenbuehelia fruiting bodies. The other packet, with an unchanged Stevenson collecting number 211, has a few Hohenbuehelia fruiting bodies.

Pileus 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, buff to sordid, finely fibrillose, fan-shaped, sessile. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, creamy white, shallow, crowded. Spores 7 x 3 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids 80-90 x 15-20 µm, pseudo-amyloid, very thick-walled, encrusted with crystals, very abundant on gill-faces (Fig. 53). Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae with clamp connections, covered by tufts of parallel thin-walled hyphae 3-8 µm diam., with conspicuous clamp connections.

On fallen rotten wood, Levin, 27.10.1947, Stevenson (type).

Pileus 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, bubalinus usque sordidus, tenuiter fibrillosus, flabellatus, sessilis. Lamellae usque ad originem adnectentem decurrentes, cremeo-albae, haud altae, confertae. Sporae 7 x 3 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea 80-90 x 15-20 µm, pseudo-amyloidea, parietibus crassissimis, crystallis plus minus incrustata, in larnellarum faciebus copiosissima. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis cum fibulis sistens, his hyphis in fasciculos hypharum parallelarum 3-8 µm diam. transeuntibus, parietibus tenuibus, fibulis conspicuis.

Typus: Stevenson 211.