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Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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Flammula hyperion sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 (1899 [1898])
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
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.

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Indigenous
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New Zealand
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Massee
Massee
Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.
1899
1898
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Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula hyperion (Cooke & Massee) Sacc. 1891
species
Flammula hyperion

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Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Hymenogasteraceae
Flammula
hyperion

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

Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

The New Zealand collection (COLENSO b 821) belongs to the genus Gymnopilus. It is clearly not conspecific with the type collection (from Australia) which is currently called Phylloporus hyperion (Cooke and Massee) Singer.
Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pileus subglobose when young, then plano-convex, finally flattened, even, glabrous, tawny-orange, then reddish or brownish-orange, 4-8 cm. across; flesh 2-3 mm. thick, yellowish; gills decurrent, arcuate, rather distant, ochraceous, then tawny; spores 16-18 x 6-8 µ; stem about 5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick, becoming slightly thinner downwards, longitudinally grooved or striate, fibrillose and rather scaly, coloured like the pileus or paler.
New Zealand. Australia.
On wood.
A very fine large species, and well marked, not approaching any other Australasian species. The spores are exceptionally large for a Flammula.

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Agaricus hyperion sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]
Agaricus hyperion sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]
Colenso, W. (1891)
Agaricus hyperion sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]
Agaricus hyperion sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Agaricus hyperion sensu Colenso 1891 [1890]
Agaricus hyperion sensu Colenso (1891) [1890]
Singer, R. (1955)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Horak, E. (1971)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Massee, G.E. (1899)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Pennycook, S.R. (2004)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Segedin, B.P. (1987)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)
Flammula hyperion sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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taxonomic status
= a Gymnopilus sp. not conspecific with the Australian type, fide Singer 1955 [as 'hypericon']; and Horak 1971

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15 March 2001
13 August 2008
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