Gigasperma clelandii (Rodway) E. Horak 1971

Details

Name scientific

Gigasperma clelandii (Rodway) E. Horak, New Zealand J. Bot. 9 493 (1971)

Preferred name

Horakiella clelandii (Rodway) Castellano & Trappe 1992

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

E. Horak

Original authors

Rodway

Authors

(Rodway) 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

493

Orthography

clelandi

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hydnangium clelandii Rodway 1924 [1923]

Type locality

Tas., Australia

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Gigasperma clelandii

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Cortinariaceae

Genus

Gigasperma

Species

clelandii

Descriptions

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 clelandii (Rodway) E. Horak 1971

Collections Examined

HOLOTYPE: PDD 8358: "Hobart".

Notes

This species was thoroughly described by Cunningham (1942, p.55) and although its peculiarities were recognised, it was classified in Octaviania Vittadini 1851. The Tasmanian G. clelandi is closely related to G. cryptica from New Zealand, but there are sufficient microscopical and macroscopical characters to separate the two as distinct taxa. According to present knowledge the area of distribution of the genus Gigasperma is restricted to Tasmania and New Zealand. Unfortunately too few ecological observations are available, thus no conclusions can be made about the mycorrhizal relationships of the two species with Nothofagus spp.