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Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 336 (1899 [1898])
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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Uncertain
Present
New Zealand
Political Region
In Europe a misapplication of Lyophyllum loricatum. In NZ likely to be a form of T. elegans [JAC]

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Massee
Massee
1899
1898
336
misapplication
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Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
species
Tricholoma cartilagineum

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cartilagineum

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Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pileus convex when young, obtuse, margin incurved and downy, then expanded and usually wavy, arched or bent down near the margin, which is persistently incurved ; always very dry; flesh rather thick, rigid, white, 5-9 cm. across, densely covered with minute black granules on a white ground; gills emarginate and sinuate, crowded, thin, about 4 mm. broad, white, then grey, but not dingy; stem 2.5-5 cm. long, firm but fragile, stout, up to 2.5 cm. thick, pure white, surface even, glabrous, polished; spores globose, 7-8 µ, diameter.
Middle Island, New Zealand. Europe.
On the ground, in beech forests, amongst moss.
Readily distinguished by the character of the pileus, pure-white stem, and grey gills.

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Agaricus cartilagineus sensu Hook. f. (1867)
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee (1899) [1898]
Tricholoma cartilagineum sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

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23 March 2001
6 August 2001
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