Panus maculatus Berk. 1855

Details

Name scientific

Panus maculatus Berk. 1855

Preferred name

Panus maculatus Berk. 1855

Taxonomy reference

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. 2000: An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(2): 265-323.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Berk.

Authors

Berk.

Publication place

Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Year published

1855

Publication page

176

Nomenclatural status

dubious name

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Panus maculatus Berk. 1855

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Panus maculatus

Typification

HAB. On dead trunks, Holotype K(M), Colenso

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Polyporales

Family

Panaceae

Genus

Panus

Species

maculatus

Descriptions

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

Panus maculatus Berk. 1855

Description

Closely imbricated or overlapping. Pilei reniform, convex, at first innato-tomentose, the cuticle cracking up into shortly refiexed scales, at length quite smooth; margin slightly involute ; stems connate, scarcely visible except in young pilei ; gills rather distant, decurrent, broad, wavy when dry, margin quite entire; spores hyaline, oblong, about 8 µ.

Distribution

Northern Island, New Zealand.

Habitat

On dead trunks.

Notes

The scales arise from the cracking of the cuticle, in consequence of which a slight portion is reflected in front, while that behind is not at all disturbed. Ample. (Berk.)

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

Panus maculatus Berk. 1855

Notes

The writer has not collected anything, which can be referred to this species the description of which is possibly adequate, but no specimen remains at Kew.