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Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]

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Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]
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Omphalia leonina
"Found at Kew Gardens, England, on a piece of dead wood covered with a fern that had come direct from New Zealand." holotype K(M)

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leonina

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Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]

Omphalia leonina Massee (16 D) Fig. 14 = Xeromphalina racemosa Stevenson and Taylor. This species was collected by Massee in Kew Gardens on a mossy piece of wood imported from New Zealand. All micro- and macroscopical characters correspond with X. racemosa which grows in New Zealand preferably on rotten wood of Nothofagus. Spores oval, hyaline, amyloid, smooth, 5-6 X 3.5-4.5 µ.

Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Collected in Kew Gardens on wood from New Zealand

Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]

Pileus campanulate, slightly umbilicate, even, glabrous, very thin, extreme margin sometimes slightly upturned, rich tawny-yellow, 4-8 mm. across; gills deeply decurrent, paler than the pileus, very distant, thick; spores broadly elliptical, hyaline, smooth, 5 X 3 µ; stem about 2 cm. long, slender, expanding upwards into the pileus, polished, rich orange-brown, with delicate tawny scurf at the base.
Omphalia leonina Massee (16 D) Fig. 14 = Xeromphalina racemosa Stevenson and Taylor. This species was collected by Massee in Kew Gardens on a mossy piece of wood imported from New Zealand. All micro- and macroscopical characters correspond with X. racemosa which grows in New Zealand preferably on rotten wood of Nothofagus. Spores oval, hyaline, amyloid, smooth, 5-6 X 3.5-4.5 µ.

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Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee (1899) [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee (1899) [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee 1899 [1898]
Omphalia leonina Massee (1899) [1898]

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typification
"Found at Kew Gardens, England, on a piece of dead wood covered with a fern that had come direct from New Zealand." holotype K(M)

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1 January 2000
27 December 2024
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