Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 327 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Taxonomy reference

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. 2000: An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(2): 265-323.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Uncertain

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

327

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Pleurotus affixus (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pleurotus affixus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Pleurotaceae

Genus

Pleurotus

Species

affixus

Synonyms

Agaricus affixus sensu Colenso 1887 [1886]

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.

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Notes

The N.Z. material (COLENSO 395) is poorly preserved in every respect and it was impossible to find spores. The type collection was described from Tasmania (growing on Eucalyptus amygdalina) and represents a species of Pleurotus (Pegler 1965:323).

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

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Densely gregarious; minute, cup-shaped, reflexed and attached by the side, coarsely striate, membranaceous, whitish, 3 mm. broad; gills adnate; thick, ascending, arcuate, rather distant; spores elliptical, 5 X 3 µ; stem very short, smooth, recurved.

Distribution

New Zealand. Tasmania.

Habitat

On bark of standing trees, &c.

Notes

Densely gregarious; covering the bark in broad patches. Readily distinguished by its habit, form, and small size.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Agaricus affixus sensu Colenso 1887 [1886]

Agaricus affixus sensu Colenso (1887) [1886]

Colenso, W. (1887)

Agaricus affixus sensu Colenso 1887 [1886]

Agaricus affixus sensu Colenso (1887) [1886]

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. (2000)

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Horak, E. (1971)

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Massee, G.E. (1899)

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Pennycook, S.R. (2004)

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Segedin, B.P. (1987)

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Pleurotus affixus sensu Massee (1899) [1898]

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. (2001)

Notes

Note type

taxonomic status

Note text

N.Z. material (Colenso 395) is poorly preserved, lacks spores, and is inadequate for comparison with the type, fide Horak 1971b, p. 407.

Metadata

Record id

1cb1d376-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date added

28 March 2001

Date last updated

1 August 2001

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