Resupinatus crawfordii Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 22 (1964). non Lentinellus crawfordii Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 20 (1964).

In his revision of the Agaricales of New Zealand, Horak (1971) appears to have been confused by the same epithet having been applied by Stevenson (1964) to two pleurotoid fungi, namely Lentinellus crawfordii and Resupinatus crawfordii. In his list, Horak (1971) cited Resupinatus (Lentinellus) crawfordii, seeming to indicate that he^- considered the two species to be the same. He noted that `the identification of Stevenson cannot be confirmed because carpophores of the type material are sterile. As shown above, Lentinellus crawfordii is easily recognised and a good species. However, the type material of R. crawfordii (Stevenson 718, on fallen Nothofagus menziesii, Nelson, A. Crawford, 6. vii. 1949, K) is certainly in a poor state, and little detail of the hymenium could be gleaned. Spores were found, however, which were short cylindric to slightly allantoid and strongly amyloid, and there were densely staining amyloid remains of spores clinging to the hymenium. The cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia are difficult to determine accurately, but the lamellar edge is sterile and appears to consist of short, clavate cheilocystidia. The trama is dense, of more or less parallel, thickish-walled hyphae of 3-5 µm diameter. The subhymenium is cellular, very densely compacted of narrow, somewhat thick-walled hyphae. The context is of very narrow (2-3 µm in diameter), loosely interwoven hyphae with large clamp connections. The pileipellis appears to be only little differentiated, with repent hyphae with coiled, slightly inflated hyphal endings. The stipe is short and stout, with distinctly velvety to fibrillose surface. The fibrils are made up of bundles of narrow hyphae, or the surface of the stipe may be covered with short caulocystidia. The fungus can be readily identified as a species of Panellus. The size of the spores, the absence of distinctive cheilocystidia, and the thin-walled pileipellis as well as the more robust form of the basidiome distinguish it from Panellus stypticus (Bull.: Fr.) P. Karst. which is also present in New Zealand and described by Petersen and Bennudes (1992).

The new combination proposed for this fungus is as follows: Panellus crawfordii (Stevenson) Segedin, Buchanan & Wilkie, comb. nov.