Pleurotus guilfoylei (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

Details

Name scientific

Pleurotus guilfoylei (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

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.) Sacc.

Original authors

Berk.

Combination authors

Sacc.

Publication place

Saccardo, P.A. 1887: Sylloge Hymenomycetum, Vol. I. Agaricineae. Saccardo, P.A. Sylloge Fungorum. 5.

Year published

1887

Publication page

360

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Agaricus guilfoylei Berk. 1872 [1873]

Type locality

Australia

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pleurotus guilfoylei

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Pleurotaceae

Genus

Pleurotus

Species

guilfoylei

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 guilfoylei (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

Notes

131. X ? Pleurotus guilfoylei Berkeley (8, 16)

There is no material from New Zealand, but examination of the type revealed the fact that Pl. guilfoylei must be considered a further synonym of Hohenbuehelia bursaeformis (Berkeley) Reid (see also Pegler, 1965).

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

Pleurotus guilfoylei (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

Description

Dimidiate or imbricated. Pileus sessile, attached laterally, horizontal, reniform, or semiorbicular, entirely white, even, glabrous, margin incurved, sometimes lobed, tomentose or downy behind near the point of attachment, 2-6 cm. across; gills rather broad and crowded, thin, margin quite entire; spores narrowly elliptical, 7-8 x 3.5 µ.

Distribution

Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia.

Habitat

On logs, &c.

Notes

Closely superficially resembling Pleurotus colerasoi, Berk., but sharply distinguished by the narrowly elliptical, spores, also other minor characters. A specimen of this species, now in Kew Herbarium, from Richmond River, Australia, was found growing " on the stem of a living Areca monostachya."