Xeromphalina racemosa G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Details

Name scientific

Xeromphalina racemosa G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor in Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19 57 (1964)

Preferred name

Xeromphalina leonina (Massee) E. Horak 1980 [1979]

Taxonomy reference

Horak, E. 1980: Xeromphalina and Heimiomyces in Indomalaya and Autralasia. Sydowia 32: 131-153.

Nomenclature

Original authors

G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor

Authors

G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor

Publication place

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

Year published

1964

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Xeromphalina racemosa G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Xeromphalina racemosa

Typification

in well-rotted log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, [New Zealand] 8.4.1961, G. M. Taylor 74, holotype K(M)

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Xeromphalinaceae

Genus

Xeromphalina

Species

racemosa

Descriptions

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

Xeromphalina racemosa G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Notes

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

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

Xeromphalina racemosa G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor 1964

Description

Pileus 2-4 mm diam., cinnamon, darker at centre and with dark striations. Gills decurrent, concolorous, distant, about 10 in number. Stipe 4-5 x 0.25-0.5 mm cinnamon, thickest where gills are attached, with strigose ball of spreading hyphae at base, attached to dark brown, branching rhizomorphs. Spores 7 x 4.5 µm, amyloid. Hyphae of cap and stipe pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 30-40 x 3-8 µm hair-like to bottle-shaped (Fig. 58).

Habitat

In well-rotted log in Nothofagus forest, Butterfly, Wellington, 8.4.1961, G. M. Taylor (type).

Latin

Pileus 2-4 mm diam., cinnamomeus (medio fuscius), striis fuscis notatus. Lamellae decurrentes, concolores, distantes, circiter 10. Stipes 4-5 x 0.25-0.5 mm, cinnamomeus, prope lamellarum insertionem crassior, basi massa globosa strigosa hypharum patentium instructus, rhizomorphis fusco-brunneis ramosis affixus. Sporae 7 x 4.5 µm amyloideae. Hyphae pilei et stipitis pseudo-amyloideae. Cheilocystidia 30-40 x 3-8 µm piliformia usque lageniformia.

Typification

Typus: G. M. Taylor 74.