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Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969

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Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969

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Singer
Singer
1969
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Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969
Chile
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Hygrocybe subheteromorpha

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subheteromorpha

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Herb. HK. ZT 68/464: 'Mangarakau, Whanganui-Inlet, Prov. Nelson, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 16.V.1968'. - Herb. HK. ZT 68/526: 'Pukeiti, Pouakai Range, Mt. Egmont, N.Z.; leg. Horak,11.IV.1968'.
Pileus 5-20 mm diam., hemispherical, convex or becoming flat with depressed centre, scarlet or tomato red, glutinous, conspicuously striated, glabrous. Lamellae adnexed to adnate, whitish-reddish when young becoming reddish-orange, ventricose, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 10-35 x 1-2 mm, cylindric, equal, concolorous with pileus or reddish-orange, glutinous, glabrous, fistulose, single. Context red-orange, yellowish towards the base of the stipe. Taste and odor not distinctive. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - yellow. Spores 8-10.5 x 5-7 µm, ovoid, smooth, inamyloid. Basidia 32-35 x 7-10 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia absent. Cuticle an ixocutis composed of repent or suberect cylindric, strongly gelatinized hyphae (4-10 µm diam.), plasmatic and encrusting pigment present. Clamp connections on the septae.
On soil or on rotten bark under Dacrydium cupressinum. New Zealand; South America (Chile).
Since we have not studied the type of G. subheteromorpha Singer we refer our N.Z. material with some hesitation to this taxon. But there is a striking coincidence of the macroscopic and microscopic characters as well so it may likely be that the area of distribution stretches from Chile to New Zealand. Furthermore the N.Z. fungus is also closely related to H. araucana Singer, another species described from Chilean forests.
SPECIMENS: NZ: T, Egmont N. P., Pouakai Range Pukeiti, ZT 68/526. -N, Collingwood, Mangarakau, ZT 68/464.

Pileus -20 mm, hemispherical, convex becoming  expanded with depressed centre; scarlet to tomato  red; glutinous, conspicuously striate at margin, glabrous. -Lamellae 12-16 (1-3) adnexed to adnate, white with reddish tinge, turning reddish orange  with age, edges entire, concolorous, without glutinous thread. - Stipe 10-35 x 1-2 mm, cylindrical, equal;  concolorous with pileus or orange with reddish tinge; glutinous, gabrous, fistulose, single. - Context red orange, yellowish towards base of stipe. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on  pileus: KOH - yellow.

Spores 8-10.5 x 5-7 um, ovoid. - Basidia 32- 35 x 7-10 um, 4-spored. - Cystidia absent - Pileipellis an ixocutis of repent to interwoven, cylindrical hyphae (4-10 um diam.), membranes gelatinised, with encrusting and/or plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 6).

DISTRIBUTI0N: NZ, N), South America (Chile).

ECOLOGY: Scattered; saprobic on soil in broadleaved forest or occasionally on rotten wood of Dacrydium cupressinum. April-May.
ICON.: Horak (1973: 166); Taylor (1981: no.43, ?).
TYPE: Chile: Concepcion, Boca del Bio-Bio, on soil in forest, 17 xi 1967, Singer, SGO 92605.

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Gliophorus subheteromorphus (Singer) E. Horak 1973
Gliophorus subheteromorphus (Singer) E. Horak (1973)
Gliophorus subheteromorphus (Singer) E. Horak (1973)
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer (1969)
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer (1969)
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer 1969
Hygrocybe subheteromorpha Singer (1969)

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