Xerotus glaucophyllus Cooke & Massee 1892

Details

Name scientific

Xerotus glaucophyllus Cooke & Massee in Cooke, Grevillea 20 120 (1892)

Preferred name

Anthracophyllum glaucophyllum (Cooke & Massee) Segedin 1994

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

Cooke & Massee

Original authors

Cooke & Massee

Publication place

Cooke, M.C. 1892: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 20(96): 120.

Year published

1892

Publication page

120

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Xerotus glaucophyllus Cooke & Massee 1892

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Xerotus glaucophyllus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Polyporales

Family

Polyporaceae

Genus

Xerotus

Species

glaucophyllus

Descriptions

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

Xerotus glaucophyllus Cooke & Massee 1892

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.

Xerotus glaucophyllus Cooke & Massee 1892

Description

Pileus sessile, very thin, horizontal, fan-shaped or irregularly circular in outline, margin sometimes slightly lobed, attached laterally, glabrous, more or less fluted, extreme edge often upturned, dusky (when dry), 1.5-2-5 cm. across; gills few, distant, broad, with shorter intermediate ones radiating from the point of attachment, pale brick-red, then becoming glaucous with the white globose spores, which are about 6 µ. diameter.

Distribution

New Zealand.

Habitat

On slender twigs.

Notes

Distinguished by the broad gills and the extreme margin of the pileus upturned, at least when dry. The species of Xerotus are remarkable for becoming dingy in colour and, in many instances, black when dry.