Gigasperma E. Horak 1971

Details

Name scientific

Gigasperma E. Horak, New Zealand J. Bot. 9 491 (1971)

Preferred name

Thaxterogaster Singer 1951

Nomenclature

Original authors

E. Horak

Authors

E. Horak

Publication place

Horak, E. 1971: Contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales s.l. (Fungi) of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 463-493.

Year published

1971

Publication page

491

Nomenclatural status

illegitimate

near homonym of Gigaspermum Lindb. 1865 [Musci]

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gigasperma E. Horak 1971

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Gigasperma

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Cortinariaceae

Genus

Gigasperma

Subordinates

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Gigasperma E. Horak 1971

Notes

A truffle-like fungus with large, globose spores. Ectomycorrhizal, known only from under Nothofagus.

Horak, E. 1971: Contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales s.l. (Fungi) of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 463-493.

Gigasperma E. Horak 1971

Latin

Habitu secotioidco. Pileo pyriformi vel irregulariter tuberiformi, glebam numquam exposito, glabro. Gleba lacunosa, loculis usque ad 3 mm latis instructa, baud gelatinosa, argillacea vel cinnamoinea. Stipite nullo vel ambiguo, columella abest, pileo concolori. Sporis permagnis, subglobosis, crasse-tunicatis, levibus. luteis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cystidiis nullis. Epicute exhyphis cylindraceis cutem formantibus, pigmento incrustato instructis, fibuligeris. Ad terram et inter folia deiecta, in silvis. Novazelandia, Tasmania.

Typification

Typus generis: Gigasperma cryptica Horak.