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

Authors

G. Stev. & G.M. Taylor

Original 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

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.