Flammula sapinea sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Flammula sapinea sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 301 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Flammula sapinea sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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

Indigenous

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Massee

Original authors

Massee

Publication place

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

Year published

1899

Year on publication

1898

Publication page

301

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Flammula sapinea sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Flammula sapinea (Fr.) P. Kumm. 1871

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Flammula sapinea

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Hymenogasteraceae

Genus

Flammula

Species

sapinea

Synonyms

Agaricus sapineus sensu Berk. 1855

Descriptions

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

Flammula sapinea sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus hemispherical, then expanded, very obtuse, slightly floccosely squamulose superficially, then becoming broken up into minute squamules, tawny-orange, dry, paler towards the margin, 2.5-7 cm. across; flesh rather thick, compact; gills adnate, crowded, about 4 mm. broad, plane, yellow, then tawny-cinnamon ; spores yellowish, elliptical, 8 x 5 µ; stem 2.5-5 cm. high, up to 1 cm. thick, solid or hollow, but stout and often irregular, fibrous, rooting, yellowish, becoming brownish when bruised.

Distribution

Northern Island, New Zealand. Australia, Europe, Ceylon, India, United States, Venezuela.

Habitat

On dead Conifers, also on the ground under pines.

Notes

Usually more or less clustered. Smell strong. Stem short, often irregular.