Naucoria acuta (Cooke) Sacc. 1887

Details

Name scientific

Naucoria acuta (Cooke) Sacc. 1887

Preferred name

Hypholoma acutum (Cooke) 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

(Cooke) Sacc.

Original authors

Cooke

Combination authors

Sacc.

Publication place

Saccardo, P.A. 1887: Sylloge Hymenomycetum, Vol. I. Agaricineae. Saccardo, P.A. Sylloge Fungorum. 5.

Year published

1887

Publication page

841

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Agaricus acutus Cooke 1886

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Naucoria acuta

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogasteraceae

Genus

Naucoria

Species

acuta

Descriptions

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

Naucoria acuta (Cooke) Sacc. 1887

Description

Pileus fleshy, conico-campanulate, acutely umbonate, glabrous; even, opaque, ochraceous, 3-5 mm. broad ; gills adnate, somewhat crowded, yellowish, then cinnamon, edge paler; spores amber, elliptical, 7-8 x 5 µ; stem slender, hollow, equal, adpressedly fibrillose, yellowish-white, 2.5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick.

Distribution

New Zealand.

Habitat

On rotten logs.

Notes

A very beautiful little endemic, species, usually densely clustered or gregarious. Pileus somewhat orange-rusty at times. Apparently not uncommon in New Zealand.