Collybia laccatina sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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Name scientific

Collybia laccatina sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 331 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Collybia laccatina 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

Anon

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

331

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Collybia laccatina sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Collybia laccatina (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Collybia laccatina

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Clitocybaceae

Genus

Collybia

Species

laccatina

Synonyms

Agaricus laccatinus 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.

Collybia laccatina sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Notes

Fig. 14 = Naucoria sp. The preserved material (COLENSO b 760) is so badly damaged by insects that it is impossible to determine the structure of the cuticle or to find any cystidia. Spores slightly kidney-shaped, brownish in KOH, smooth, without germ pore, 8-9.5 X 4.5-5.5 µ. Because of the size and shape of the spores, we have no hesitation in placing this fungus in Naucoria. The genus is represented by several species in New Zealand's forests. The type of the taxon was redescribed by Pegler (1965) and belongs to Collybia.

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

Collybia laccatina sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Caespitose. Pileus subglobose, then expanding until plano-convex, thin, glabrous, margin sulcate, pale fleshy-red or brownish red, 1-2 cm. across; gills adnate, distant, thick, coloured like the pileus but not such a deep tint, mealy with the spores, which are elliptical and measure 5 x 3 µ; stem 1.5-3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, fibrillose, paler in colour than the pileus.

Distribution

Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia.

Habitat

On dead logs, &c.

Notes

Berkeley was mistaken in considering the present species as belonging to his genus Laccaria, as I have examined his type specimen, also Colenso's New Zealand specimens, both of which have elliptical spores, as described above. Cooke evidently did not examine Berkeley's specimens, but copied his mistake, and printed it in Austr. Fung, p. 17.