Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

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Name scientific

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee, J. Bot. 34 (1896)

Preferred name

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Uncertain

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Original authors

Massee

Authors

Massee

Publication place

Massee, G.E. 1896: New or critical fungi. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 34: 145-154.

Year published

1896

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Based on

Lepiota mesomorpha (Bull.) Gillet 1874

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Lepiota mesomorpha

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Verrucosporaceae

Genus

Lepiota

Species

mesomorpha

Synonyms

Agaricus mesomorphus sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]

Descriptions

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

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Notes

Figs. 16, 17 Two collections under this name (COLENSO b 840, b 881) are still in existence but they differ distinctly from each other. More details will be given in a study of Lepiota to be published later.

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

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Description

Pileus thin, campanulate, then expanded, the margin sometimes slightly turned up, often more or less umbonate, dry, even, glabrous, yellowish, or pale yellow-brown, about 2 cm. across; gills free, about 1 line broad, ventricose, clear white ; spores elliptical, 5-6 x 3 µ; stem 2-5-3.5 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, equal, dry, even, glabrous, paler than the pileus, fistulose ; ring superior, persistent, erect, whitish.

Distribution

New Zealand. Australia, Europe.

Habitat

On the ground.

Notes

Readily distinguished by the even and glabrous' pileus and stem-very exceptional features in Lepiota and the entire, erect, persistent ring.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Agaricus mesomorphus sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]

Agaricus mesomorphus sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]

Colenso, W. (1891)

Agaricus mesomorphus sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]

Agaricus mesomorphus sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee (1896)

Horak, E. (1971)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee (1896)

Massee, G.E. (1896)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee (1896)

Massee, G.E. (1899)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee (1896)

Pennycook, S.R. (2004)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee (1896)

Segedin, B.P. (1987)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee (1896)

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Lepiota mesomorpha sensu Massee 1896

Notes

Note type

taxonomic status

Note text

N.Z. collections (Colenso b840, b881) are two distinctly different Lepiota spp., fide Horak 1971b, p. 436

Note type

taxonomic status

Note text

PDD58874 (b.840) is a Leucoagaricus near L. serenus. Massee's description of NZ material suggests a Leucoagaricus [JAC]

Metadata

Record id

1cb1d1cd-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date added

15 March 2001

Date last updated

23 July 2001

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