Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns 1985
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Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 26 357 (1985)
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns 1985
Nomenclature
Redhead & Ginns
Fr.
(Fr.) Redhead & Ginns
1985
357
Fr.
ICN
species
Neolentinus lepideus
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Pileus fleshy, tough, convex, then depressed and unequal, pale dingy-ochraceous, becoming broken up into darker spot-like squamules, 4-8 cm. across; flesh 4-6 mm. thick at the disc, white; gills decurrent, slightly sinuate, 4-6 mm, broad, margin irregular, torn, transversely striate, whitish or tinged with yellow; spores narrowly elliptical, smooth, 7 x 3 µ; stem usually 2-3 cm. long but sometimes longer, about 1 cm. thick, tapering below into a rooting base, hard, pale, with downy squamules, the veil soon disappearing.
Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia, Europe, Siberia, United States.
On logs, stumps, &c.
Showy, large, firm, much deformed, often somewhat excentric ; smell pleasant. Often white. Developing into very grotesque forms when growing in dark situations.
This species, common and widespread outside New Zealand, was collected at Hokio, 30.8.1948 and is recorded by Massee (1898).
Taxonomic concepts
Agaricus lepideus Fr. (1821)
Agaricus suffrutescens Brot. (1805) [1804]
Agaricus suffrutescens Brot. (1805) [1804]
Agaricus suffrutescens Brot. (1805) [1804]
Lentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) Fr. (1825)
Lentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) Fr. (1825)
Lentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) Fr. (1825)
Lentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) Fr. (1825)
Lentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) Fr. (1825)
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns 1985
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns (1985)
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns 1985
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns 1985
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns 1985
Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns (1985)
Neolentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) T.W. May & A.E. Wood (1995)
Neolentinus suffrutescens (Brot.) T.W. May & A.E. Wood (1995)
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1 January 2001
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