Clitocybe infundibuliformis sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Clitocybe infundibuliformis sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 319 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Clitocybe infundibuliformis 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

Uncertain

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Massee

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

319

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Clitocybe infundibuliformis sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Clitocybe infundibuliformis Quél. 1872

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Clitocybe infundibuliformis

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Clitocybaceae

Genus

Clitocybe

Species

infundibuliformis

Synonyms

Agaricus infundibuliformis 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.

Clitocybe infundibuliformis sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus convex when young, then depressed, umbo blunt, margin incurved, at maturity becoming softer and flaccid and completely infundibuliform or funnel-shaped, up to 8 cm: across; disc fleshy, remainder thin, firm when young, yellowish flesh-colour, then buff, becoming pallid or whitish; gills decurrent, rather crowded, narrowed to both ends, soft, white; spores 5-6 x 3-4 µ; stem 7-10 cm long, 6-10 mm. thick, stuffed, externally firm, elastic, attenuated upwards, rarely equal, pallid, base with white down.

Distribution

Northern Island, New Zealand. Europe.

Habitat

Among moss and grass, in pastures and woods.

Notes

Smell pleasant. Colour changing from pale -reddish through buff to white when old, but not white at first.