Hygrophorus viridis G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Details

Name scientific

Hygrophorus viridis G. Stev., Kew Bull. 16 383 (1963 [1962])

Preferred name

Gliophorus viridis (G. Stev.) E. Horak 1971

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

G. Stev.

Original authors

G. Stev.

Publication place

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

Year published

1963

Year on publication

1962

Publication page

383

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hygrophorus viridis G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hygrophorus viridis

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hygrophoraceae

Genus

Hygrophorus

Species

viridis

Descriptions

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

Hygrophorus viridis G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other Stevenson collections in K, GS 1113, 1384, 483, 602, 844, 240, 1074, 1078

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

Hygrophorus viridis G. Stev. 1963 [1962]

Description

Pileus 1-5-3.5 cm. diam., herbage green to melachite green, occasionally blue with pink tints, striate at margin, very slimy, convex becoming flattened, with or without a shallow umbilicus; flesh concolorous. Gills adnate to subdecurrent, moderately thick, concolorous with a white bloom. Stipe 3-5 cm. X 3-5 mm,, concolorous above, yellow at base, hollow to somewhat stuffed, very slimy. Spores 4-5 x 6-8 µm., oblong hyaline. Basidia 35 x 4-6 µm., four-spored. All specimens become flesh coloured when dried.

Habitat

habitat: under forest among moss or litter, Levin, 20.4.1948, Stevenson; & 26.6.1948, F. Duguid, Keith George Park, Wellington, 15.6.1949, Stevenson; Rotoiti, 16.5.1956, E. Kidson; Nelson, 3.6.1956, Stevenson.

Latin

Pileus 1.5-3.5 cm. diam., viridis, ex herbaceo malachiteus, nonnunquam caeruleus colore roseo suffultus, ad marginem striatus, eximie viscidus, e convexo applanatus, baud vel leviter umbilicatus; carne concolore. Lamellae adnate vel subdecurrentes, modice crassae, concolores, albido-pulverultentae. Stipes 3-5 cm. X 3-5 mm. sursum concolor, deorsum flavus, e farcto cavus, eximie viscidus. Sporae 4-5 X 6-8 µm., oblongae, ovoideae, hyalinae. Siccitate specimina incarnata.

Notes

This species is close to the European H. psittacinus (Schaeff. ex Fr.) Fr, which is a toadstool of grassland, whilst H. viridis has been found only in forest. The New Zealand fungus does not go brown and does not have brown or red colour on the cap; also its spores are slightly smaller.

Typification

Typus: Stevenson 338.