Pleurotus colensoi Berk. 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Pleurotus colensoi Berk. in Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 324 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Conchomyces bursiformis (Berk.) E. Horak 1981

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.

Nomenclature

Authors

Berk.

Original authors

Berk.

Publication place

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

Year published

1899

Year on publication

1898

Publication page

324

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pleurotus colensoi Berk. 1899 [1898]

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pleurotus colensoi

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Pleurotaceae

Genus

Pleurotus

Species

colensoi

Descriptions

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Pleurotus colensoi Berk. 1899 [1898]

Notes

Pleurotus colensoi Berkeley apud Massee (16 D) = Hohenbuehelia bursaeformis (Berkeley) Reid (see there).

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Pleurotus colensoi Berk. 1899 [1898]

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

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

Pleurotus colensoi Berk. 1899 [1898]

Description

Solitary, or more or less imbricated. Pileus sessile, horizontal, thin, entirely white, rather soft, almost or often quite even and glabrous, margin entire or slightly lobed, spreading, reniform or semicircular, 3-6 cm. broad; gills radiating from the point of attachment, rather broad and crowded, thin ; spores white, smooth, subglobose, 7-8 x 6 µ.

Distribution

Dannevirke, Nelson, New Zealand.

Habitat

On logs, &c.

Notes

Apparently a common species in New Zealand, having been sent on four different occasions by Colenso ; also sent from Nelson by Dall. This species may possibly have been described somewhere by Berkeley, but I have not been able to find the account. Distinguished by thin substance and entirely white colour. Pleurotus guilfoylei somewhat resembles the present species, but differs in having the pileus tomentose behind and the margin persistently incurved.