Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.) Fr. 1838

Details

Name scientific

Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.) Fr., Epicr. Syst. Mycol. 330 (1838)

Preferred name

Hygrocybe miniata (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

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

Combination authors

Fr.

Original authors

Fr.

Authors

(Fr.) Fr.

Publication place

Fries, E.M. 1838: Epicrisis Systematis Mycologici. Typographia Academica.

Year published

1838

Publication page

330

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Agaricus miniatus Fr. 1821

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hygrophorus miniatus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hygrophoraceae

Genus

Hygrophorus

Species

miniatus

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.) Fr. 1838

Collections Examined

On the ground. Maungaroa (154).

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

Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.) Fr. 1838

Description

Pileus 1.5-2-5 cm. across, flesh thin, convex, obtuse, then umbilicate, at first even, glabrous, and crimson, then becoming pale, opaque, and squamulose ; gills adnate, not at all decurrent, distant, distinct, rather thick and firm, yellow, or sometimes more or less tinged with crimson; stem 3-5 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, even, glabrous, shining, crimson, equal, round, imperfectly stuffed; spores elliptical, 10 x 6 µ.

Distribution

Maungaroa, New Zealand. Europe, Australia, Ceylon.

Habitat

Among grass, in pastures, roads, &c.

Notes

Pileus becoming umbilicate, bleached, and squamulose when old.

Stevenson, G. 1963: The Agaricales of New Zealand: IV. Kew Bulletin 16(3): 373–384.

Hygrophorus miniatus (Fr.) Fr. 1838

Notes

This was also recorded by Massee, i.e. supra, but the writer has not collected it. Both these species are described and illustrated by Lange and others.