Pleurotus diversipes sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Details

Name scientific

Pleurotus diversipes sensu Massee, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31 326 (1899 [1898])

Preferred name

Pleurotus diversipes 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

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

326

Nomenclatural status

misapplication

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pleurotus diversipes sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Based on

Pleurotus diversipes (Berk.) Sacc. 1887

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pleurotus diversipes

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Pleurotaceae

Genus

Pleurotus

Species

diversipes

Synonyms

Agaricus diversipes sensu Colenso 1893 [1892]

Descriptions

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

Pleurotus diversipes sensu Massee 1899 [1898]

Description

Pileus circular or more or less excentric, pellucid, dingy-white, smooth, even, invested with a gelatinous stratum, often more or less depressed or umbilicate, horizontal owing to the upward curving of the stem, 3-5 cm across; gills rather decurrent, not very broad nor crowded, not connected by veins, whitish; spores elliptical, 5 X 3-3.5 µ; stem variable in length, up to 3 cm. long, often shorter, some-what cartilaginous, often compressed, hollow, attached by a flattened or slightly discoid base, whitish.

Distribution

New Zealand. Tasmania, Australia.

Habitat

On rotten logs stumps, &c.

Notes

Distinguished among species having the pileus covered with a gelatinous stratum by the hollow stem, which is sometimes almost central, at others almost lateral, but always inserted within the margin of the pileus ; usually curved when the fungus grows from a vertical substratum.