Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Details

Name scientific

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Preferred name

Entoloma hochstetteri (Reichardt) G. Stev. 1962

Taxonomy reference

Horak, E. 2008: Agaricales (Basidiomycota) of New Zealand. 1. Pluteaceae (Pluteus, Volvariella), Entolomataceae (Clitopilus, Entoloma, Pouzarella, Rhodocybe, Richoniella). Fungi of New Zealand. 5. Fungal Diversity Press.

Nomenclature

Authors

Berk.

Original authors

Berk.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1867: Hooker, J.D. Handbook of the New Zealand Flora. Reeve & Co.

Year published

1867

Publication page

604

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hygrophorus cyaneus

Typification

[New Zealand] Middle Island: Beech forests, amongst moss, Nelson Province. Julius Haast

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hygrophoraceae

Genus

Hygrophorus

Species

cyaneus

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Collections Examined

On the ground. Waitaki (85), with figure.

Notes

The colour as shown in the drawing is verdigris-green, but in other respects it does not appear to differ from the typical form in any essential particular.

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

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Notes

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berkeley (3 D, 4, 16, 27) = Entoloma hochstetteri (Reichardt) Stevenson

No specimens have been preserved but a well executed painting of this distinctive fungus by J. V. Haast exists at Kew. For further details see Stevenson (27).

Horak, E. 1990: Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). New Zealand Journal of Botany 28(3): 255-306.

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Notes

There is no type material in the Kew Herbarium but the taxon is well documented with a painting executed by J. V. Haas (cf. Stevenson, 1962: 234; Horak, 1971: 417).

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Hygrophorus cyaneus Berk. 1867

Description

Entirely clear sky-blue. Pileus acutely conical, splitting, slightly striate, 4 cm. high; gills free, very broad (1 cm.) in front, gradually narrowing to the stem ; stem 12 cm. high, 7-8 mm. thick, hollow, base thickened.

Habitat

Middle Island: Beech forests, amongst moss, Nelson Province. Julius Haast.

Notes

The present species is somewhat uncertain, being described by Berkeley from a crude drawing only. To this species Cooke refers a drawing of a Fungus from Waitaki, with the following remark : "The colour as shown in the drawing is verdigris-green, but in other respects it does not appear to differ from the typical form in any essential particular."