Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

Details

Name scientific

Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

Preferred name

Lentinellus novae-zelandiae (Berk.) R.H. Petersen 2004

Taxonomy reference

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. 2000: An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(2): 265-323.

Nomenclature

Authors

Berk.

Original authors

Berk.

Publication place

Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Year published

1855

Publication page

176

Orthography

as 'novæ-zelandiæ'

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lentinus novae-zelandiae

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Polyporales

Family

Polyporaceae

Genus

Lentinus

Species

novae-zelandiae

Descriptions

Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

Description

Lentinus Novae-Zelandiae, Berk.; minor, subimbricatus, pileo flabelliformi tenui rufo-badio postice velutino, lamellis angustis tenuibus pileo concoloribus. HAB . On dead wood, Colenso. Subimbricated. Pileus 1 inch or more long and broad, thin, flabelliform, suborbicular or reniform, bay-brown, clothed behind with short velvety olive down. Stem obsolete. Gills of the same colour as the pileus, narrow, decurrent behind ; edge thin, lacerated. Closely resembling Lentinus castoreus, of which I have an authentic specimen, but differing in size and in the narrow gills.

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

Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

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.

Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

Description

Sessile, attached by a narrowed base, fan-shaped, reniform or suborbicular, thin and flexible, bay-brown, clothed behind with short velvety olive down, about 2.5 cm. long and broad; gills decurrent behind, narrow, edge thin and torn, coloured like the pileus.

Distribution

New Zealand.

Habitat

On dead wood.

Notes

Closely resembling Lentinus castoreus, but smaller, and with narrower gills. There is no specimen in Berkeley's herbarium.

Segedin, B.P. 1996: A new species of Lentinellus (Hericiales, Lentinellaceae) and a revision of taxa attributed to Lentinellus in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34(2): 249-261.

Lentinus novae-zelandiae Berk. 1855

Notes

Shown to be a synonym of Lentinellus ursinus by Pegler 1983.

Berkeley's (1855) description is "Subimbricated. Pileus 1 inch or more long and broad, thin, flabelliform, suborbicular or reniform, bay brown, clothed behind with short velvety olive down. Stem obsolete. Gills same colour as the pileus, narrow, decurrent behind; edge thin, lacerated. Closely resembling L. castoreus, of which I have an authentic specimen, but differing in size and narrow gills."
The type material (New Zealand: Colenso, Herb. Phillips, ex Herb. Berkeley, K) consists of 4 basidiomata up to 26 x 17 mm diam. Their characters all confirm Pegler's identification of the species as yet another synonym of L. ursinus.

Stevenson, G. 1964: The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.