Rhodocybe muritai (G. Stev.) E. Horak 1971

Details

Name scientific

Rhodocybe muritai (G. Stev.) E. Horak, New Zealand J. Bot. 9 438 (1971)

Preferred name

Lepista luscina (Fr.) Singer 1951 [1949]

Nomenclature

Authors

(G. Stev.) E. Horak

Original authors

G. Stev.

Combination authors

E. Horak

Publication place

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

Year published

1971

Publication page

438

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lepista muritai G. Stev. 1964

Type locality

NZ holotype (K, Stevenson 1321)

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Rhodocybe muritai

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Entolomataceae

Genus

Rhodocybe

Species

muritai

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.

Rhodocybe muritai (G. Stev.) E. Horak 1971

Description

Lepista muritai Stevenson (29 D) Fig. 17 = Rhodocybe muritai (Stevenson) comb. nov. (Basionym: L. muritai Stevenson, Kew Bull. 19: 7, 1964)

Cuticle consisting of cylindrical, not gelatinised, clamp connection-bearing hyphae, forming a cutis, interwoven with oleiferous vessels. Spores rough to minutely corrugated-angular, pinkish, oval, 6-7.5 X 3.5-4 µ. Cystidia none.

Horak, E. 1979: Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae. VII. Rhodocybe Maire. New Zealand Journal of Botany 17(3): 275–281.

Rhodocybe muritai (G. Stev.) E. Horak 1971

Description (NZ)

Stevenson (1964: loc. cit.); Horak (1971: loc. cit.).

Collections Examined

New Zealand: North Island. Wellington, Catchpole: 3.V. 1958, leg. Stevenson-Cone 1321 (K, holotype).

Notes

Only three New Zealand species of Rhodocybe (R. muritai, R. iti, R. maleolens) are known to have emarginate lamellae. These species are easily separated by the following macroscopic and microscopic characters: size and shape of the carpophores, presence or absence either of oleiferous vessels in the subcutis or of clamp connections on cuticular hyphae, and size of the spores. Furthermore, the lack of pseudocystidia is a distinctive feature of this group of New Zealand Rhodocybe