Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Details

Name scientific

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor in Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19 20 (1964)

Preferred name

Pleurella ardesiaca (G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor) E. Horak 1971

Taxonomy reference

Singer, R. 1982: Hydropus (Basidiomycetes-Tricholomataceae-Myceneae). Flora Neotropica Monographs. 32.

Nomenclature

Authors

G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor

Original authors

G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor

Publication place

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

Year published

1964

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Tricholomataceae

Genus

Leucopaxillus

Species

ardesiacus

Descriptions

Cooper, J.A. 2014-: Studies of New Zealand agaric type collections not deposited in PDD (unpublished).

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Notes

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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.

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Notes

A thorough study of the type and several collections made by ourselves clearly showed that this species is taxonomically unrelated to Leucopaxillus. Details of its systematic position will be published in a later paper.

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

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

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

Leucopaxillus ardesiacus G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Description

Pileus 2-3 cm diam., dark grey, convex with strongly down-rolled margin, silky fibrillose; flesh white, solid, with a water soaked layer above the gills. Gills adnexed, pale grey, long and short intercalating, some forking. Stipe 2.5 x 0.5-0.7 cm, solid, fleshy, pale grey fawn with darker grey markings, base surrounded by grey hyphae. Spores 5-6 x 2-5-3 µm, strongly amyloid (Fig. 35); print white.

Habitat

On fallen log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).

Latin

Pileus 2-5 cm diam., fusco-griseus, convexus, margine valde deorsum revoluto, sericeo-fibrillosus; came alba solida, strato aquoso supra lamellas sito. Lamellae adnexae, pallide griseae, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae, nonnullae furcatae. Stipes 2.5 x 0.5-0.7 cm, solidus, carnosus, pallide griseo-hinnuleus, fuscius griseo-notatus, basi hyphis griseis circumdatus. Sporae 3-6 x 2.5-3 µm, valde amyloideae, in cumulo albae.

Typification

Typus: G. M. Taylor 77.